This is the case of every one of you that is out of training. The world of sports is extended

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This is the case of every one of you that is out of training. The world of sports is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of failure of the wrath of your Coach, there is it’s wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor anything to take hold of, there is nothing between you and failure but the air; its the only power and mere pleasure of your Coach that holds you up. You probably are not sensible of this; you find that you are kept out of failure, but do not see the hand of your Coach in it; but look at other things, as the good state of your healthy body, your care of your sport, and the means you use for your own success. But indeed these things are nothing; if your Coach should withdraw his hand, they…show more content…
when once it is let loose. It is true, that punishment for your wrongdoings have not been given;the Hoods of your Coach’s vengeance have been withheld; but your laziness in the meantime is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are constantly rising, and waxing more and more mighty; and there is nothing but the mere pleasure of your Coach, that holds the waters back, that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward. If your Coach should only withdraw his hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of your Coach, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power; and if your strength were ten thousand times greater than it is, yea ten thousand times greater than the stoutest, sturdiest football player, it would be nothing to withstand or endure it. The bow of your Coach’s wrath is bend, the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your future, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but mere pleasure of your Coach, and that of an angry Coach, without promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with the ruin of your future. Thus all you that never try hard, by the mighty power of your Coach upon your souls; all you that never practice hard, and skip

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