Jeffrey Lockwood

And she decided that she was going to leave the team, that she was endangering herself and she was no longer an asset to her teammates.

And people had all of these responses, right?

And people wanted to label her a quitter, which was just completely ridiculous.

Look at her athletic record, the number of gold medals.

The woman is not a quitter.

But because we conflate having quit with being a quitter, she worked really, really hard to try to avoid the phrase, I quit.

But she did quit.

She really did quit, and she exemplified a good quit.

She quit at the right time, in the right way, for the right reasons, right?

It was a beautiful example of a good quit.

But because quit has such a negative sense about it, she would not say that she had quit.

And I think she did.

I think it was a wonderful quit from which we could all learn something.

But her detractors said, oh, she's a quitter.