- Young men, the journey of a million miles begins with a single step.

- Average is just not good enough. PERIOD.

- These are student-athletes...Student comes first.

- Kenyon: Without you, nothing good feels as good. It's like I'm missing some happy part of me.

- You all have achived something much more then the score board you have achived something that people have spent there whole lives looking for.

- Damien Carter: We're going to finish what you started sir.

- You go home tonight and you ask yourself do i want better? And if the answer is yes, i'll see you back here tomarrow.

- I'll do push ups for him. You said we're a team. One person struggles we all struggle. One player triumphs we all triumph, right?

- Coach Ken Carter: Success in here, is the key to success out there.

- They can cut the chain off the door, but they can't make us play we've decided that we are gonna finish what you started, sir. Yeah so leave us be coach. We got sh*t to do, sir. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequite. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insedcure around you. we were all meant to shine as children, it's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others....sir i just want to say thank you, you saved my life. Thank you sirs, all of you.

- Oh well, now, not quite your story book ending hah? Not for us anyway. But you men played like champions, you never gave up, and champions hold their heads high. What you achieved goes way beyond the win loss column or whats gonna be written on the front pages of the sport's section tomorrow. You've achieved something that some people have spent their whole lives trying to find, what you achieved is that ever elusive victory with-in, and gentlemen I am so proud of you.

- Four months ago when i took the job at Richmond High, I had a plan, that plan failed. I came to coach basketball players and you became students. I came to teach boys and you became men, and for that I thank you.