Insights on Achieving Athletic Excellence and Success, Pt.1

The following was written by former athlete and coach Skip Bertman.
It's about achieving athletic excellence and success. The insights are extraordinary and motivating.
Most of what you are about to read could have been written by Cerutty.
Here goes:
"1. To make champions, you've got to build their entire lives--their bodies, their hearts, their minds--around excellence.
2.Excellence is quite simply the continuous, relentless, never ending commitment to improve, excellence is the gradual result of always trying to get better.
3. Excellence is getting to the field earlier, training harder, practicing longer, working smarter and preparing more than others care or expect to.
4. Excellence means making a special effort, doing more than is asked. Expecting more of one's self.
5.Excellence is an all the time thing.
6.Excellence is a habit. Winning is a habit.
7.Good enough never is.
8.Failure is a part of winning.
9.You can't give up and you can't give in. You have to be relentless.
10.All you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough.
11.Weak athletes avoid challenges, champions rise up and meet them."


Part 2.tomorrow--if you know anyone who might enjoy this Blog--pass it along--I try (key word try) to provide posts not found on most other running/athletic sites.