When it comes down to it, you win a bunch of games or maybe things don't go the way that you plan - those relationships that you build with the guys around you last a lifetime. To me, that's meaningful.
Interpretation
The enduring value of relationships outweighs the outcomes of individual successes or failures.
In this quote, Marcus Mariota emphasizes that while achieving victories in games is often celebrated, the deeper connections and friendships formed with teammates are what truly matter and provide lasting significance in life. He suggests that building strong relationships is more meaningful than any short-term successes in sports or other endeavors.
In practice
During a motivational speech about teamwork in a sports academy.
In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.
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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
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