The discipline and perseverance learned through sport apply to everything in life.
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Milt Campbell
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1933, Milt Campbell won the Olympic decathlon gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Games. At seventeen, he had already won silver in the decathlon at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. A supremely versatile athlete who also played in the NFL, he later devoted himself to education and youth development as a motivational speaker.
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The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.
-- Tōgō Heihachirō
兵無常勢、水無常形。能因敵変化而取勝者、謂之神。
-- Sun Tzu
The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.
-- Erwin Rommel
What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle.
-- Alexander Suvorov
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
-- Epaminondas
You don't have to be great at one thing. You can be good at many things and still be the best.
-- Milt Campbell