KYW Episodes

Kick-start Your Week (KYW) with inspiring quotes, thoughts, and profound words to live by
Jan. 26, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 01.26.26

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck
Jan. 19, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 01.19.26

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." — Albert Camus
Jan. 12, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 01.12.26

“Every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all of our lives.” — Steven Spielberg
Jan. 5, 2026

Kick-Start Your Week - 01.05.26

“A man is great not because he hasn't failed. A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.” — Confucius
Dec. 29, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 12.29.25

“I can't believe it's been a year since I didn't become a better person.” — Unknown
Dec. 15, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 12.15.25

“Christmas is not a time or a season, but a state of mind.” — President Calvin Coolidge
Dec. 8, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 12.08.25

“Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.” — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Dec. 1, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 12.01.25

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” — Bruce Lee
Nov. 24, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 11.24.25

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” — Bruce Lee
Nov. 17, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 11.17.25

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Nov. 10, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 11.10.25

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Nov. 3, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 11.03.25

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Oct. 27, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 10.27.25

“Fear is natural, but panic is fatal. You train your mind as much as your fists to stay cool under pressure.” — Gene Tunney
Oct. 20, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 10.20.25

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” — Helen Keller
Oct. 13, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 10.13.25

“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.” — Bruce Lee
Oct. 6, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 10.06.25

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
Sept. 29, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 09.29.25

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
Sept. 22, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 09.22.25

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh
Sept. 15, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 09.15.25

“Pressure is a privilege” — Billie Jean King Consider pressure to be a privilege. It doesn’t happen TO you, it happens FOR you. It means great things are expected of you.
Sept. 8, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 09.08.25

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." — Benjamin Franklin
Sept. 1, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 09.01.25

Tim and Steve talk about how big goals don’t happen overnight — they come from small steps every day. They share how even a champion like Larry Holmes had to win one fight at a time to reach the top. The message is simple: stick to a winning process, focus on little wins each day, and you’ll get closer to your dreams.
Aug. 25, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 08.25.25

“You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.” — Jerry Rice
Aug. 18, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 08.18.25

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein
Aug. 11, 2025

Kick-Start Your Week - 08.11.25

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein
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