Graduation Quotations | Page 7

After graduation I want to offer my services anywhere, to any facility that wants me. I want to help counsel kids. I want to motivate kids. I want to show them, step by step, how they can get a second chance.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

If we know we've got one graduating, we're looking for another one. It's like getting a point guard or a shooter. It's a kid with an edge. You have to have some of that.

I graduated with my ninth grade class (Langdale School) in the spring of 1941. Our graduation exercises were held in the Langdale Theater. After that, we gathered at the gym. It was pretty simple. It was a fun time. But it was a sorrowful time because we realized we would never be students at LaFayette Lanier School again.

At the end of each episode the most improved driver graduates from the program and leaves. By the end the worst driver remains and he or she is crowned Canada's worst driver.

This is the only Project Graduation I know of that has given away a brand-new vehicle to one lucky senior. We've really become the model everyone else wants to become.

We graduated so many seniors that this is really a young team. We're going to take our lumps just because we're so young. We've got new pitching because we lost five pitchers. We lost all three catchers. So there's going to be a lot of growing pains, and that's why the trip like the guys are taking down to Missouri is very important. They're going to get a lot of games in and we can kind of sort things out a little bit to try to get ready for conference play down the road.

One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.