Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~Winston Churchill

Do you think this quote is applicable to this story? Explain.

I would say that yes, it is applicable to the story because the whole thing is about the narrator's team failing several times in multiple different ways, but they were given the courage to continue on by the narrator's dad. They learned that the success of the Madison team was not final as well. They may have beat them but only by 3 points.

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Hope this helps :)

On Edge the answer is, "The reader knows that there is a difference  between what is expected and what occurs."