"My parents decided that, with three boys around the house who
were as competitive as we were, we had to institute a new rule.
I was still young, and they were already concerned about the
bragging that we were doing among ourselves. Here was the rule:
we were forbidden from talking about our own accomplishments,
unless asked first by someone else. If someone specifically asked
us how the game went or how we played, we could answer, but
we couldn't volunteer the information. They based this new rule
on the admonition found in Proverbs 27:2:
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
a stranger, and not your own lips.
