J. J. Johnson Kids Quotations

When the kids see what great shape he's in, and that there's a certain gleam in his eye, they are able to see you can succeed when your boxing career comes to an end.

One thing we talked about is being an inexperienced team, when you get adversity, everybody's got to come together and pick it up. I think when they saw Laura go down, who's one of our tougher kids, the kids had a little bit of an emotional letdown.

We've told our kids that we're supposed to lose,

We have kids who are following the race in Italy, Australia, in Iceland, just everywhere. It's really exciting.

It's 90 percent mental. You don't really have to have a lot of the physical aspects. Some of the kids these days don't really fit into basketball or football so you got to get into bowling.

It's really a fantastic family activity. Kids are exceptionally good at this because they're good with new technology, and they like scavenger hunts. And it brings out the kid in adults, too.

In my job I see a lot of kids from single-parent households. I understand the struggles they have as single parents and just want to be here for them.

These kids never quit. That was the difference from a couple of our losses. Once they got down, they would give up the game. But at the end tonight, they never stopped going hard, and they took over at the end.