Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.