I heard on the news that he texted his teammates to say his injured left ankle is not responding as well to surgery and rehabilitation as he had hoped and said he was retiring
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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