"For them, it’s just like, okay they are hearing this, and they still don’t know how to situate it. They’re saying it, but are they saying this as an order to me? “I don’t want to be ordered!” or like should I just try to completely emulate what they’re saying? "

"I have more energy then I probably will as I get older. I’m sure I would love to get paid, but at the same time I enjoy what I’m doing, and I think I get things from it, and experiences and lessons learned from it that you can’t put a monetary value on."

"It’s a lot more likely for one of the participants to not show up because they’ve got to go to Footlocker and buy a new pair of kicks! That’s a lot more realistic, and more common for that to be the reason."

"I don’t think it was just them evaluating themselves, because every question we asked them tied back to the program, obviously, because that’s what we’re evaluating."

"We did a scale – you know, because it’s usually excellent, good, satisfactory, poor? Instead, we did, ‘brap, brap’; ‘dope’; ‘aiiit”, and ‘wack’! They really responded well to that."