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Either you’re the best or you’re everyone else, and the best don’t make excuses, they find a way to win.
She would have loved to see him get married. Become a dad. Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it’s almost unbearable. Even if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Anyone who devotes his life to being the best at one single thing will be asked, sooner or later, the same question: “Why?” Because if you want to become the best at something, you have to sacrifice everything else.
He had no team. So they gave him an army.
Peter follows the pucks’ movement toward the wall, and is thrown back in time, a whole lifetime.
Hockey is the simplest sport in the world, if you’re sitting in the stands. It’s always so easy to say what everyone should have done when you know that what they actually did didn’t work.
He’s already wondering about how he’s going to find a tree beautiful enough for his mom to sleep under. That’s when he becomes an adult.
“Coach.” He doesn’t say “person” or “friend.” Just “coach.” That will never stop hurting David.
The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.
It’s the middle of winter, toward the end of a childhood, and when Bobo opens the door he finds Benji,
