I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.
If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.
This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.
I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
I don't like to stop. I believe you stop when you die.
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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