To have mental, physical, and emotional strength means you are equipped to do battle in the arena of sport. This is what we pursue, and that is why we compete. When sport is played at a high level, there is a sublime beauty to it. The competitor becomes one with the rhythm of athletic movement. True athletes understand the tears a player sheds when her performance touches greatness. When you experience a moment of perfection in your sport—that’s the moment when time slows down and you feel moved by a greater power than yourself.
Winning feeds the ego, but competing feeds the soul.
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Physical, mental and emotional ... the three biorhythm benchmarks! Yea, I was playing Cale once in 1-on-1 basketball, when he was at the age where he could sometimes take me. Time slowed down, I was in the "zone", baby. Swish! Spin, kiss it off the glass, lefty ... oh, my. I had to cry. That might have been the last time I beat my boy. Sweet. Remember Bishop Feehan? You were there. The zone. Love, Dad
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