The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads and the boss drives.
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin and I've spoken with athletes who for years afterward have been tormented by the knowledge that had they done something ever so slightly different they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
What guides Marxism then is a different model of society and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference unmixed with considerations of a different order.
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.