KEITH SHANER
right direction. Matchroom is also running junior events parallel to their major events, which gives young players even more opportunities. This also means that we cannot rest when we see a little bit of success. It means that our players must work even harder, and we need to support them even better. Do not rest on your laurels. Do not coast on your talent. Do not underestimate your opponents. Learn from the Past. Live in the Present. Look to the Future. Right now, the future looks bright, and if we stay in the moment and don’t repeat the doomed decisions of the past, I think in a few more years, it will have evolved well beyond what anyone could have imagined way back in 1976. Who knows what we will see in the next core sample, say, fifty years from now? It might be something epic.
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