Quotes from Terry Ryan

Sometimes when your life seems most out of control, you know there's a direction. I don't mean you can't have free will--in fact, that can be the most important part.

Every time I pass church I stop and make a visit So when I'm carried in feet first God won't say, Who is it?

Sometimes t feels like I live in a circus and all the animals are loose.

At that moment we knew that as long as we used our brains, we were not victims. By striking out to write our own ticket, we would grow up to be like our mother, winners.

From then on, we knew there could never be a problem bigger than Mom's ability to solve it.

My mother didn't like to hear profanity, and she certainly never spoke it. She had always told us that swearing was the sign of a lackluster vocabulary and, worse, a stunted imagination. There are so many interesting words to use, along or in combination, she said, that I don't know why anyone would fall back on one-syllable obscenities.

I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.