A Way Of Life

How many people besides athletes have the courage to display their weaknesses as well as their strengths before hundreds of people? Nowhere else but in the sports world does one dare to lose so often, hope to win so much, try over and over so many times for perfection, or give so much so often.  The athlete knows the price of excellence, the worth of pain, the desirability of joy and the self-ability to achieve. To learn to compete well is to learn to live well, for not only is competition a way of life, it is life. Only those who dare to accept the bad with the good, the work with fun, the sorrow with the happiness and the defeats with the victories will ever achieve or accomplish much in the real world.

So It Is With Life