Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition.  Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals.  The struggles within yourself–the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.

Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was an American track and field athlete.  During the 1936 summer Olympics, he became the first athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad.