The line is from a song in a 1992 movie, "Bob Roberts," and the meaning has been turned around in 19 years. What Tim Robbins meant as satire is now the playbook of the country, with the steady decline of the working class and the rise of talk radio and The Tea Party.
Applied to athletes, it suggests that faced with adversity, some athletes will work harder. Others seek a transfer to a school with a less imposing depth chart.
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