10th Honors
Summer Reading 2008

Walk-On
by Alan Williams

Walk On is being read by the whole school this summer.  The author, Alan Williams, plans to visit Pillow several times next year to talk to classes about writing and his experiences.  Your assignment is as follows:  For each of the following quotations from Walk On, explain how it relates to the book and/or to your own life.

Ch 2   

p8

Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them- anonymous

Ch 5   

p27

I’ll Make It.     Jimmy Chitwood (Hoosiers)

Ch 8   

p46

As for the players, one through thirteen, each was important. Otherwise he  wouldn’t have been on the team.   Dean Smith

Ch 10 

p60

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  Philippians 4:13

Ch 13 

p85

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. 
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.  Lou Holtz

Ch 15

p100

The only place you can win a football game is on the field.  The only place you can lose it is in your heart.  Darrell Royal

Ch 18

p121

When you are doing what you love to do, no one has to motivate you.
Rick Warren

Ch 20

p 138

I don’t want to be their coach.  I don’t want to be their agent.  And I don’t want to be their promoter.  I just want to be their dad.  Bill Walton

Ch. 21

p149

Teach us to number our days so that we might gain a heart of wisdom.  Psalm 90:12   our prayers.  Rick Warren

Ch. 23

p168 

This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  Romans 3:22-24

Ch 26

p186

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.  Mark 10:45

Ch. 28

p197

A walk-on’s role was not about playing time, autographs, or ESPN.  Being a walk-on was about practice; that is where we made our difference.  Alan Williams


 
     


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