Dads Provide "The Essential Ingredient"

"It takes a number of critical factors to win, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and, of course, luck.
                But if a team doesn’t have the
                  most essential ingredient,
      love—none of those other factors matter."
          ~Phil Jackson in "Eleven Rings, the Soul of Success"

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
          ~Mae West

"People ask me what I do in winter when

there's no baseball.  I'll tell you what I do.
I stare out the window and wait for spring."
          ~Roger Hornsby 

"It's a wise father that knows his own child."
          ~William Shakespeare

"It's easy for a kid to join a gang,

to do drugs.....we should make it that

easy to be involved in football

and academics." ~Snoop Dogg

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
  Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.  Just walk beside me and be my friend."                 ~Albert Camus

When I'm standing at the pearly gates, I want to say to God, "Don't look at my records. 
Look at my family.  I'm much prouder
about that."          ~John Fogerty 

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."                 ~Sigmund Freud