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    Old systems top to bottom need to be ripped out and rebuilt and you can't do that during a single summer so there are tactical challenges to renovating North High School too. When you add the costs of renovating North High School and renting space or transporting students to a different space during a year of construction renovating isn't cost-effective. The cost is almost the same as building a new school.

    Our success has been contagious. The support we get from the school and the parents is tremendous. I know it may sound corny, but being part of Lexington tennis is like being part of one, big family.

    I'm learning the ropes the same as the students are. I think it's neat to see how Adopt-a-Family affects the students it brings out a whole new side of them. It's great any time you can connect the school and community.



    It doesn't work that way in life. You don't just come out of (graduate) school and become a great doctor. It takes time to build a team like we had last year. That's why from October 15th on I've never seen any greatness with this basketball team. There's too much to learn.

    The lesson I learned was When in doubt, build your own damn truck. It's a lesson we all need to learn. You need to educate yourselves, learn every language you can. You need to not be a slave to the credit system and gain economic independence. You need to build your own damn truck rather than wait for someone to give you one.








    Once 3 or 4 million people have seen you naked, it's kind of liberating and you don't really care. But at the time it felt like the dream where you wake up at school with no pants on ... and the school is 4 million people.

    Alabama gave me the opportunity. It wasn't me that had to face (her parents). It was Auburn that had to face them. They were happy with my decision, but they were disappointed in their university. But things happen for a reason.

    It's possibly true that all you need is a chance, but there's a typical path coaches follow. In terms of the coaching part, handling players at practice, teaching the schemes of football, I don't think that would change a bit no matter what. But recruiting is much different.

    If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.



    Imagine graduating and your job is to hang out on college campuses, where people who work for you are getting people excited about music. I said, 'You're going to pay me to do that' It was the greatest job, never having to grow up.



    We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the right person and the best person at the right time to take the university forward.


    You can do better than that by simply getting up and taking a 30-minute walk every single day, ... This was a six-month study. What happens with continued use of this How much is necessary


    People forget sometimes that he's a kid, because he's so big. It's different, though, because at school he's a kid but then he has to go home and take care of himself like an adult.


    As a youngster he was very average at best. He hardly played in middle school. But through hard work and dedication, Micah made himself into a player.


    There is some ageism in the market but a lot of ageism also exists only in the mind of the person. In a skills-short market there are a number of options for people of all ages who can demonstrate they have been able to keep learning.



    The parents actually go into the child's classroom for part of the day and see what their children are learning, how the teacher is teaching them and what they are expected to know.


    Some kids are put in shelters and there are a number of reasons. Kids run away from home and there are other problems in the community that have an impact on attendance. They are breaking state law by not coming to school.

    The university has seen significant success outside of basketball in recent years, and no one has argued that basketball hasn't had an impact on that, ... It makes the decision to reward someone -- like Mark -- who has brought tremendous success to the university a no-brainer.

    J.D. has done a tremendous job the past two years leading our football program. We want to reward him for the job he's done. The University is committed to J.D. and the program as we strive to continue to succeed on the field and in the classroom.

    He's seen the schools that he's kinda narrowed it down to, (and) I think he's had enough of the exposure. And I think he's kinda ready to get the recruiting process over with. I think he saw how it went down with Adam, and he's just ready to get it done.



    Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to go to Stanford, instead of Harvard or M.I.T. as his father had hoped. He appeared at my classroom door a few days before Christmas and told me I had helped him get through the last year of high school, ... At one time he had a dream of going into a dark alleyway with his father and only one of them would come out. He'd be the one, of course, but out there in Stanford, he began to think about his father and what it was like coming from Korea, working day and night selling fruit and vegetables when he knew barely enough English to get through the day, hanging on, desperate for his children to get the education he never had in Korea, that you couldn't even dream of in Korea.




    Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.





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