12th Duel Enrollment
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 4

p22

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.  Tim Keller

 

 

 

Ch 7

P57-8

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate.  It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live.  There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior.  Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere. (John Wooden)

 

 

 

Ch 12

p81

Sports do not build character…they reveal it.  John Wooden

 

 

 

Ch 14

p94

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  John Wooden

 

 

 

Ch 17

p116

I could watch my team from the bench.  I couldn’t watch them from the stands.  Alan Williams

 

 

 

Ch 19

p134

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.  Charles Spurgeon

 

 

 

Ch 21

p145

Prosser get the most out of his players.  There is not a coach who I admire more than Skip Prosser- he’s one of the good guys. Jay Bilas

 

 

 

Ch 23

p167

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.  Rick Warren

 

 

 

Ch 25

p181

All life friendships are born the moment you meet someone who sees what you see, hears what you hear.  C. S. Lewis

 

 

 

Ch 28

p195

Our team had a 10:00 P.M. curfew before each game- Coach never called to make sure I was in bed.  Alan Williams

 

 

 

Ch 30

p213

I didn’t spend four years of my life fighting to be a walk-on.  I spent four years of  my life fighting to be a teammate.  Alan Williams


 
     


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