Saturday, January 11, 2025

What Made You Think It Would Be Easy?


Winning is hard...whether in the soft suburbs or the hardscrabble streets of Chicago. When the Manley High School crew team was practicing in the late 1990's, a teacher asked, "what made you think it would be easy?"

Your families don't have it easy. Your teachers don't have it easy. Your teammates don't have it easy. What made you think it would be easy? 


  • Acquiring skills isn't easy. 
  • Game understanding for ideal positioning isn't easy. 
  • Athletic training and endurance training isn't easy. 
  • Resilience, learning how to win, how to fight for your teammates isn't easy. 
What made you think it would be easy? Be up for the challenge. 

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