(Jason in December, 2006, during the Kumite portion of his belt test to earn his black belt at the improbable age of 9 – FYI, the student he was fighting was 14)

It’s not your “attitude” that will breed ultimate success, although at times it will sometimes get you close.  The journey to achieving the “extraordinary” is when you understand how to apply that “attitude” to your own specific “attributes” and let it launch you beyond what was once “unthinkable” and mold it into what resembles the entirely “probable”!  – Joe Dico

(Christian in November, 2016, after being recruited and committing to play baseball while still a sophomore in high school at the University of Washington after he graduates in 2019)