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When winning now fights the person you're building

It's the fourth quarter and my best player is hurt but begging to go back in. Winning tonight gets us to the playoffs and gets the parents off my back. But this is a sixteen-year-old kid whose knee has to carry him for the next fifty years. I'm standing on the sideline torn in half between the scoreboard and the boy.

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You are torn between winning the game now and protecting the young people you're shaping.

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