Follow Them with “Knucklehead”

“Bathe and brush. Today you might meet ‘her’.”

“Stay low on a grounder. The ball hurts less than disappointing your teammates.”

“Read when there’s time. When you are too busy to read, make time.”

”You can tell a man by the cleanliness of his car, and a woman by her kitchen.”

”Smile if they call you an asshole, but never let’em call you a lazy asshole.”

”If he’s bigger than you, pick up a stick.”

“Be yourself. It’s better to be hated for who you are, than loved for who you’re not.”

”Stand up straight, look’em in the eye, and get a firm grip. First impressions last.”

”You are probably not smarter, so outwork the S.O.B.”

”Why make your bed? Because I’ll jerk a knot in your ass if you don’t.”

”Tell her she’s pretty. Tell her again if she doesn’t believe it.”

”The love you have for anything amounts to the labor you put into it.”

”Snap the buttons, fold the collar, tuck the tails. It’s what they are there for.”

”Believe it or not, it don’t cost nothin’ to say grace.”

Best fatherly lesson? A good dad is never gone.