This quote from Mario Williams is presently posted on bb.com. It is the most stunning thing I’ve ever read from an athlete: the admission that he and his teammates quit.

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Do you think you finished the game, did you run through the finish line?

“Not with that score. At the end of the day you can go out there and keep chopping wood, but for them to go out there and to score and finish the way we did, we can’t look at anybody and say that we did.”

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I am reminded of the Michael Irvin story of how, during his rookie year (a 1-15 campaign), he collected names of all the players that were strictly there to collect a paycheck and didn’t “run through the finish line”. Mario, you just made the list.