PROVO, Utah — Of all the gifts or talents former BYU basketball star Devin Durrant enjoyed while playing sports, the greatest was the people who believed in him.
Sure, he had extra height and good endurance, said Brother Durrant at BYU Campus Education Week. More important, however, was that "my parents believed in me."
"That is a gift that all of you can give to young people. Do the young people in your life know that you believe in them?" he asked while offering a workshop entitled, "Helping your child excel in athletics and in life."
Brother Durrant, an all-American basketball player in the early 1980s, said everyone can remember a negative thing a teacher or mentor once said to him or her and the impact those words had. "We can do the opposite. What a gift you can give them....
"We have gone down the road a little bit. Now we can reach back and help these young people excel in athletics and more important, in life."