The one thing you can say is that we all have our own thing that we've been true to and it was just a matter of time - we were going to do it whether you let us officially or not, ... I've been an artist for 12 years, I've just been street legal for about five months.

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.