the Big Buddy sessions: what are you willing to give
it's about how to reach down into parts of yourself you didn't know were there and get down in there and live inside these parts. And the only way to get to them: sacrifice. Suffer. Deny. What are you willing to give. [...] It's about discipline and sacrifice and honor to something way bigger than your personal ass. [...] I'd chew fiberglass for that old man.
Context
Stice relays Schtitt's mano-a-mano creed to his own brood, and it's the sacrifice-doctrine at full earnest heat: tennis is a way "to reach down into parts of yourself you didn't know were there," reachable only through "sacrifice. Suffer. Deny." The body's discipline is in service of "something way bigger than your personal ass," and the kids' unembarrassed devotion — "I'd chew fiberglass for that old man" — is the pedagogy landing. (The patriotism/"America isn't good its own self" clause is nationalism-onan's; OURS is the body-sacrifice doctrine and the earnest devotion it commands. See Routed.)