I know Doug really well. I knew his youngest pretty well. It’s just gut-wrenching. I can’t imagine what he and his ex-wife went through.

That’s why it’s no different than when we lose a driver. Every week, we’re with these people more than we are our families. Whether it’s restaurants or golf outings or charity events or autograph sessions. And then you see kids like that … it’s just wrong. It shouldn’t happen. It makes you re-evaluate your faith. What purpose could this possibly have? Why would God want to take them away? But evidently, there’s a bigger plan that none of us know about – you would hope. But it happens every day. You try not to let it affect you. But when you’re close to someone like that, it can’t not affect you.

One of the biggest kids I try to teach to my kids right now is: you guys are race car drivers. So the minute you get a driver’s license or you start driving with someone who gets a driver’s license, the first thing they want to do is say, ‘I want to take you for a ride in my fast car.’ They always want to push you. They want to show you how good they are or what they can do, or they want you to show what you can do. It’s like peer-pressure or it’s like drugs. ‘Look, this drug didn’t affect me, try it.’ I and try to tell them, ‘Look, we do our stuff in a controlled environment. That’s where we do it. You don’t do it on the street.’ It’s dangerous enough with all that in place. But if you do one thing on the street and you lose control and you kill a kid, or you go into a house or you hit a tree, you’re never going to be able to live with yourself if you hurt someone else. You can’t let that happen. And all you can do is try and preach to them as much as you can and hope it sinks in. But we’ve all done stupid things.