Champions

Your hard work has paid off, now the fruits of your labor are in your sights. 

You have what it takes to be a champion! The foundation has been set. Those 

that came before you have exhibited Courage, Commitment,Character, Loyalty,

Integrity, and Leadership. You too exhibit those same characteristics. 

It's your turn to continue the Legacy! 

There is wisdom in the words of these champions:

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and

sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate

champion."

Mia Hamm

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of

all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in 

a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious"

Vince Lombardi

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch

excellence."

Vince Lombardi

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they 

have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have

last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have 

the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." 

Muhammad Ali

"If you want to be a champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to

act like one, you've got to look like one."

Red Auerbach

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid but being able to

control that fear so you are able to perform at your highest ability. 

That's what makes a champion."

Cory Lester

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to

an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that 

will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Mario Andretti

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never

would be found out."

Thomas Babington Macaulay

"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the

motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the

greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals."

Rensis Likert

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we

gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we

remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we 

practice that gives us integrity."

 Francis Bacon, Sr

"Most important Leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people

out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives

worthy of their best efforts."

John Gardner