Word: quit
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Born in Arkansas and reared in Oklahoma, Jones claims he was precocious from the start and tried to run away from home at age eight. Although both his parents were doctors, he quit school in the ninth grade and began working at a variety of jobs from welding to piloting airliners to making wildlife films in Africa. "Specialization is for insects," he snaps today. "There is no limit to my abilities. I can do anything and do it well if I turn my mind...
Inga Parsons, her roommate for four years, explained how at one point Johnson's thesis advisor suggested she quit the team so she could put more time into her studies. "She responded by putting 150 percent into both, and it showed...
...Doyle and Mielach sharing a double one floor below the other roommates, and the team wasn't a close group. "Off the court was fine, but on the court, nobody was together." On April 1, toward the end of a season that seemed to have gone on forever, he quit the squad...
...felt like I cheated [Coach] Ishan [Gurdal]. He worked with me for two years and then I went and got hurt on him," says Doyle. "I lost control in volleyball junior year--and I regret doing it because it's the only time I've ever quit. I think that's why I stayed at Harvard--I couldn't quit...
...midseason, after one of the co-captains had quit the squad, Doyle approached his coach. "I called Ishan to the side one day and said, 'I'm enjoying the game a lot. Will you let me be the [on-] court captain?" he recalls. "He said, 'I've been waiting for you to ask me that...