“I quit. Just walked on out and never came back,” he said. “Good for you,” my mom said. “You’re better off without them!” “See, that’s what I used to think, but now you know what I think? I think if it were Mia, she wouldn’t have quit. She wouldn’t have let those punks take away her dream. She would have worked hard and gotten better. So what if you lose the first race, you get back in there and keep swimming. And you know something? She would have been right.”
