“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.”

“I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.”

“The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that looks like a rat's been gnawing on it. His beard looks like a white sneeze. The teeth are jagged and out of alignment, having opened quarts at Jiffy Quick Lube for half a decade.”

“My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the situation you are in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, too afraid of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.When in doubt, do the next right thing.”

“Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma that beckons me like a fluff girl on scuffed knees.”

“Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is rather not letting your fear control your actions”