If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you.

I’m not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn’t the shortest kid in the class.

Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

The more you practice the better you’ll be, the harder you train the great in you they’ll see.

I can’t compare family to athletics.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn’t need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

There’s nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn’t get in the way of your schoolwork.

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

Someday find my son…tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth.”–A Letter to Jesse Owens

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

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Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

You can be strong as any boy if you’ll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.