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Someone posted this on Facebook, and I swiped it. I have no idea if Damien Rhodes actually said these words, but I gather he did or something very similar.
“Whether you come from a great family, a broken family or whatever, there’s stuff this football field can teach you that you can’t learn in a classroom – and vice versa. You’re not going to learn how to solve a math problem or how to balance a checkbook on a football field. But there’s mental toughness that you get from football that I don’t think you get from any other sport, or the classroom. And that’s important to me that they learn those life lessons,” - Damien Rhodes, new varsity football coach at Fayetteville-Manlius and former SU and Texans running back.
“Whether you come from a great family, a broken family or whatever, there’s stuff this football field can teach you that you can’t learn in a classroom – and vice versa. You’re not going to learn how to solve a math problem or how to balance a checkbook on a football field. But there’s mental toughness that you get from football that I don’t think you get from any other sport, or the classroom. And that’s important to me that they learn those life lessons,” - Damien Rhodes, new varsity football coach at Fayetteville-Manlius and former SU and Texans running back.
