Just before Whitney Hite conducted his first practice as the men?s and women?s swimming and diving coach at the University of Wisconsin, he took grease pen in hand and scrawled his code for life on a white board for his charges to see. “Entitled to nothing, grateful for everything,” he wrote. “If you can live your life with that motto,” he told them, “then life becomes a heck of a lot more fun and a heck of a lot more enjoyable.” That sentiment is meant to be applied 24/7, but there are moments when its ring is a bit truer.
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