Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

On January 27, 2001, the focus of my career and the process of changing the desires of my heart all began. It was no longer about me but rather how I could impact others for the Kingdom. I officially was in the people business. That philosophy, combined with a warrior mentality, I believe, has endeared me to being labeled a positive clubhouse influence.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general for a role from the janitor all the way up to the owner of the club. I refuse to believe there arent more out there that can positively affect any of our games or any of our industries.

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.

To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.

What we project, we get back.

You can see pretty graphically the need for probably some updating of lines in Minnesota. It's a regional issue, so to the extent any of our companies are investing, we're going to be asked to chip in for it.

I have to plead the fifth on that one. Technically, I never saw the ball after it went over the fence.