God only wants us to do our best and be brave. He loves us and doesn't classify people as “best”and “worst”.

The same people who admire you now criticise you later, because they only want “the best”.

Being a Christian is not an excuse for mediocrity, nor is it an excuse to passively accept defeat.

God's entire plan was put into the hands of eleven very ordinary men, without human power, fearful, and doubting - eleven men waiting for supernatural power.

Len Bias, No 1 in the draft, signed up for the Boston Celtics but died because of a drug overdose. He had just signed one of the most expensive contracts in memory.