Quit: (v.) To stop doing something or to leave a job or a place
Quit is a word fraught with negative connotations; to wit, the well-known and oft-misquoted comment attributed to Vince Lombardi: Winners never quit and quitters never win. Personally, with respect to Coach Lombardi, I hear that phrase and think, "What a crock!" Bill Murphy, Jr. writing in Inc. posits that quit is "itself a truly neutral word; we can't know whether it's a "good" thing or not without knowing the object of the verb." Keeping Mr. Murphy's thought in mind, one must consider what exactly an individual has quit. A location they despise? A job that robbed them of valuable time and energy, whilst simultaneously failing to recompense them fairly? An activity they have zero desire to partake of, in favor of one much more suited to their talents and interests? The tutelage of a lesser coach than someone of Vince Lombardi's legendary reputation?
In my years on this orb, I have yet to meet anyone who has not, at one time or another, quit something and ultimately replaced what they quit with something far more rewarding in ways they perhaps had not considered at first. Even the men who played for either the New York Giants or the Green Bay Packers during Lombardi's tenure had to quit something else for the privilege of being coached by him; immediately calling into question the validity of his most famous bon mot.
Perhaps the more accurate statement, particularly in the current Covid-impacted world, might be, "Winners choose wisely and win more in the long run."
Just my two cents!
