. Here's why you don't have your ten million dollars yet. You are a paycheck player. You play with your head. Not your heart. In your personal life? Heart. But when you get on the field -- you're a businessman. - from the movie Jerry Maguire
By the early '80s, the Greater Boston Track Club had half a dozen guys who could run a 2:12 marathon. ... Twenty years later, you couldn't find a single 2:12 marathoner anywhere in the country. The United States couldn't even get one runner to meet the 2:14 qualifying standard for the 2000 Olympics...
What happened? How did we go from leader of the pack to lost and left behind? ... the answer is best summed up as follows: $.
... the fact is, American distance running went into a death spiral precisely when cash entered the equation. - Christopher McDougall (Born to run)
What's true for sports is true for every single profession. The good news is, the realization sets you free.
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