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10 Life Lessons As Told By 'Friday Night Lights'

Clear Eyes... Full Hearts...

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10 Life Lessons As Told By 'Friday Night Lights'
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While watching the Dillon Panthers win state championships and seeing Tim Riggins shirtless are definitely not un-beneficial, there is much more to learn from the five seasons of "Friday Night Lights." There's so much to learn from it, actually, it's completely OK to binge watch the entire show in less than a week. Coach Taylor and the rest of Dillon have a lot to say, and we have a lot to learn...

1. Sometimes bad things happen to good people.

"Give all of us gathered here tonight the strength to remember that life is so very fragile. We are all vulnerable and we will all at some point in our lives fall; we will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts…that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us and that when it is taken from us we will be tested…we will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times…it is this pain that allows us to look inside ourselves." -Coach Taylor


2. Dream big while you can.

"Here's to God and football and, ten years from now, Street, good friends livin' large in Texas. Texas forever, Street." -Tim Riggins


3. You gotta live to learn.

"You're twenty years old. You're not supposed to know what you're gonna do with the rest of your life yet. You're doing what you think is best. You're following through on what you think is best and that's what you should be doing. You have a plan and you're executing it, what's wrong with that? But you gotta give it a chance, you gotta give yourself time. You can't beat yourself up because you're taking chances on things, but don't start giving up on what you set forth to do in the beginning, 'cause that's gonna get you nowhere. I can promise you that." -Coach Taylor


4. Do it now or regret it later.

"You get one chance in life fellas. You either take advantage of it or you piss it away. You do the latter and you're gonna regret it the rest of your lives." -Coach Taylor


5. The only way to succeed is to work - work hard.

"Success is not a goal. It's a by-product. So let's put the work in." -Coach Taylor


6. Everyone loves a good BBQ.

"Let's have a morale building barbecue." -Tami Taylor


7. Leaving your small town is hard.

"It's kinda like this drug: when you get outside of it, you see it for what it is. But when you're in it, seems like there's no other possible reality." -Tyra Collete


8. Overthinking leads to no good.

"You can blame yourself for anything if you think about it long enough." -Coach Taylor


9. Life's tough. Take what it gives and enjoy it.

"You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once, so you take your memories where you can get 'em. Right, Riggs?" -Jason Street


10. Clear Eyes. Full Hearts.

CAN'T LOSE.

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