People are a lot like public corporations. Some look a lot better on paper than they do in real life when you start digging. For instance, take Mike Singletary (of Baylor University and Chicago Bears fame) and me as examples. I was a disappointment as a son, student, husband, father, and soldier.

Then there’s Mike Singletary, who as a small boy had a lot of hurdles to overcome. He did and moved on.

As the story goes, Coach Taff, at Baylor always had a private meeting with his new players. In this meeting he'd ask the same question that he had been asking for years. "What do you want to accomplish by playing for Baylor?"