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<blockquote data-quote="Roundball Sage" data-source="post: 1942552" data-attributes="member: 748116"><p>Every person always retains the right to make their personal choices and the direction for their life. But as always, with rights come attached responsibilities and implications.</p><p></p><p>When you are any high profile position... and when you are a public face of a major institution that so many other people rely and count on for various reasons... you have to conduct yourself to a higher standard. It’s ‘not just you’ anymore. You freely took on that role and its responsibilities. Lots of people are watching. And you had better learn that sometimes optics are just as significant (or more so) than apparent realities.</p><p></p><p>The problem is when those folks who do ascend to high positions begin to believe they are invincible and still totally free to act without regard to others. This is a lesson that some never learn – as history shows. </p><p></p><p>Sports is a mirror that reflects all human behaviors – good, bad, and neutral. There is always a larger game going in sports off the field of play as there is on it. The larger game that houses ‘The Games’.</p><p></p><p>And as many events in the sports world have shown... you might win on out the field but be less than a winner off it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roundball Sage, post: 1942552, member: 748116"] Every person always retains the right to make their personal choices and the direction for their life. But as always, with rights come attached responsibilities and implications. When you are any high profile position... and when you are a public face of a major institution that so many other people rely and count on for various reasons... you have to conduct yourself to a higher standard. It’s ‘not just you’ anymore. You freely took on that role and its responsibilities. Lots of people are watching. And you had better learn that sometimes optics are just as significant (or more so) than apparent realities. The problem is when those folks who do ascend to high positions begin to believe they are invincible and still totally free to act without regard to others. This is a lesson that some never learn – as history shows. Sports is a mirror that reflects all human behaviors – good, bad, and neutral. There is always a larger game going in sports off the field of play as there is on it. The larger game that houses ‘The Games’. And as many events in the sports world have shown... you might win on out the field but be less than a winner off it. [/QUOTE]
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