“I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play b...” — Jesse White Quote

“I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.”

“I tell the people that hire us, if we don't get a standing ovation when we're finished with our performance, it's free - and we've always been paid.”

“I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.”

“Attending Columbia had always been my dream, but the truth is, my decision not to go wound up opening the door to things that would have, in the past, seemed too big to even be worth dreaming about.”

“Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.”

“Going out with friends for a nice dinner and then attending the midnight mass are some of the memories I cherish.”