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Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

While competing in an alcohol funny car, her parachute failed to deploy. Her race car sped through 2 catch nets and four rows of sand-filled barrels, landing upside down. But getting “back on the horse” was a challenge because death was present at that racetrack. As fate would have it, returning to the same race track years later, another driver and friend crashed and was killed, just before she was to run her race. The critical mental challenge: Am I done? Am I a true racer? Support the show.

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0:00.0	The Westwood One podcast network.
0:03.0	I just thought to myself, you know, I'll never forgive myself if I don't do this.
0:11.3	I have to do this.
0:13.4	I have to do this.
0:15.1	This is part of what I signed up for.
0:17.2	Obviously not, you know, I'm not saying, you know, death is what I signed up for.
0:23.0	But knowing that possibility, I mean, you're writing that line.
0:28.7	It's a fine line.
0:31.6	And that's something that really made me feel alive.
0:35.7	Who ain't never with me, never with me, never with me.
0:46.8	All right, everybody.
0:48.6	Welcome back to the TNG podcast.
0:50.8	I'm your host, Marcus Matrell.
0:53.5	Every week it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push
0:58.0	you to your greatness.
0:59.0	Join me every week and I take you into my Breaker room with some of the most art,
1:02.8	charging people on the planet.
1:04.2	They're going to show you how to embrace the stuff of life, teach you the values of
1:08.0	working your ass off, and charge to whatever life throws at you.
1:11.9	This is the team you never quit podcast.
1:15.6	Don't buckle up, buttercup.
1:18.6	All right, everybody.
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