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.
Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now
No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
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