A Lifetime Of Training For Just Ten

Friendships Born On The Field Of Athletic Strife Are The Real Gold Of Competition. Awards Become Corroded, Friends Gather No Dust.

In The End, It's Extra Effort That Separates A Winner From Second Place. But Winning Takes A Lot More That That, Too. It Starts With Complete Command Of The Fundamentals. Then It Takes Desire, Determination, Discipline, And Self-sacrifice. And Finally, It Takes A Great Deal Of Love, Fairness And Respect For Your Fellow Man. Put All These Together, And Even If You Don't Win, How Can You Lose?

It All Goes So Fast, And Character Makes The Difference When It's Close

It Dawned On Me With Blinding Brightness. I Realized: I Had Jumped Into Another Rare Kind Of Stratosphere - One That Only A Handful Of People In Every Generation Are Lucky Enough To Know.

It Was Bad Enough To Have Toppled From The Olympic Heights To Make My Living Competing With Animals. But The Competition Wasn't Even Fair. No Man Could Beat A Race Horse, Not Even For 100 Yards.