Do Everything You Can

Let me tell you this.  I'm watching practice yesterday and we're wrapping it up, doing our set pieces at the end, and I'm watching Catherine Reddick practice free kicks.  All season she's so afraid to hit anyone in the wall that most of her shots are skying over the crossbar or going wide.  Well, Catherine knows now that it's time to go after it.  All of a sudden she smacks one, and it almost tore a couple of ribs off Johanna.  I wanted to set Johanna free so I said, "All right Johanna, that's it.  You're outta the wall."  And she didn't move.  She didn't move.  It looked like a tear started to well up in Jo's eye, and I know she was in pain.  But I was wondering, what was she in pain from?  That the ball hit her?  Or that this was all she could do to help us win, and she did not feel complete or satisfied, and would anyone even notice or care?  So remember this.  When you're out there tonight playing out the last minutes of someone else's career, don't waste a second.  Don't avoid a physical risk.  Don't not make a run.  Don't dishonor the wonderful nobility of the reserves you are playing before.  You will never eliminate the quite pain they are all suffering, but you will make it a bit more bearable, and if you are truly valiant it might even feel inside that all of their sacrifice is worthwhile.

All right.  Here we go.

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