“I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.”

“You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.”

“The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.”

“Freedom is knowing who you are, and once you know that the rest can straighten out itself if you really know who you are.”

“Everything you do means something about you.”

“You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather.""Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers.”

“The only thing my mother told me about sex was that I was never going to get any.”