:56:09
Well, not quite
your storybook ending, huh?
:56:12
Not for us, anyway.
:56:16
But you men played like champions.
:56:19
You never gave up.
:56:22
And champions
hold their heads high.
:56:26
What you achieved goes way beyond
the win-loss column
:56:29
or what's gonna be written
on the front page
:56:31
of the sports section tomorrow.
:56:34
You've achieved something
that some people
:56:36
spend their whole lives trying to find.
:56:39
What you achieved
is that ever-elusive victory within.
:56:46
And, gentlemen...
:56:49
...I am so proud of you.
:56:55
Four months ago, when I took
the job at Richmond, I had a plan.
:57:00
That plan failed.
:57:02
I came to coach basketball players,
and you became students.
:57:08
I came to teach boys...
:57:11
...and you became men.
:57:14
And for that, I thank you.
:57:19
If someone walked in this door
right now
:57:22
and offered me the coaching job
at any school in the state of California,
:57:28
you know which team I'd choose?
:57:30
St. Francis?
:57:33
I'm just saying, man.
:57:36
Kenyon?
:57:42
- Richmond?
- Rich what?
:57:45
- Richmond.
- Rich what?
:57:47
Richmond.
:57:49
- Rich what?
- Richmond.
:57:51
- Where we from?
- Richmond!
:57:53
- What's my hometown?
- Richmond!
:57:56
- What do we love?
- Richmond!
:57:58
- Rich what?
- Richmond!