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Rush Limbaugh learned his most memorable lessons in high school football field, where the future football broadcaster toiled as a defensive tackle. Limbaugh recalls one of his favorites:

Every day after practice, we had to run wind sprints, which I hated. At some point, a coach would yell, “First three tackles through for the day!” That meant the first finishers in the next sprint quick showers. The others would continue running. It didn’t take me long to realize that if I pace myself during the early sprints, I would have some gas left to finish in the top three. After three days of this, the assistant coach called me over.

”Mr. Limbaugh, I noticed you’re usually in the middle of the pack until we call our first three tackles,” he observed. “Why is that?”

”I’m pacing myself, coach,” I said.

”In football we don’t pace ourselves,” the coach explained.  “We go all out all the time. You’d be wise to do that your whole life. If I see you doing that again, you’re going to run 10 extra sprints. Is that clear?”

It was a valuable lesson. And today I’m still going all out, all time. –See I Told You