Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's been one of those things where anybody that's played a sport at the professional level, there's always a lot of challenges. And the one thing that's always been a constant for me is Jesus Christ and my faith - and just knowing that my walk with Christ is steadily going up.
My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
I know competition is there, and it can come my way by new, fresh faces that are around or are coming up. It pushes me to work hard. I know if I don't work hard, I will be left behind. So, I continue to work hard.
Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.
I live for competition. It makes my life complete.
My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.