To be in a locker room before a big game and to look into strong faces, which say, 'If we can only do it today' — to be with aggressive, ambitious people who have lost themselves in something bigger than they are — this is what living is all about.
Joe Paterno
Penn State University Commencement 1973, 1973
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Paterno closed his speech with this deeply emotional passage about what team membership feels like at its most intense. He described grown men with tears in their eyes, huddling close to each other, reaching out to be part of something larger than themselves. It was a vision of human connection forged through shared purpose and mutual commitment. He quoted John Steinbeck from The Grapes of Wrath: 'Maybe man doesn't own his own soul, only a piece of a big man.' And he shared one of his players' wry observations: 'We grow together in love — hating the coach.' The humor underscored the paradox that deep bonds often form not in spite of hardship but because of it. For graduates leaving the community of university life, the message was that the deepest fulfillment comes not from individual achievement but from losing yourself in a collective endeavor — from being part of a team, whatever form that team takes in your life.
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