Pain Spirit and Success

Great success, the success of the few really great ones, is based on the spirit — the emotional content of the athlete.  Do you have what it takes? Learn more about what you need to do to reach ultimate success in life and football.

To be great, you will have to develop your inner spirit, love of truth, uprightness and strength never to quit.

Spirit involves courage and the ability to absorb and therefore ignore the mental and physical pains associated with total effort.

It allows, when the occasion arises, to pullout; all stops in a “rather die than be beaten” approach. I have seen it in Elliott and Halbery, both half-way to death’ after a specially gruelling race.
In this regard, Elliott and Halbery, who had far more guts than inborn strength and ability, excel the others.

Learn to live with what daunts and terrifies the little ones’, those who are not blessed as you are, have no inherited gifts and vision and who cannot, perhaps never want, to see the way to greatness.

Your job is to make the most of the material that is yours in the journey to the top to serve humanity, your nation, your race and your- self while there is yet time !

Those who do not feel deeply will never succeed greatly.

Feeling deeply means we feel we could “kill” ourselves when we do not measure up to our potential, or when we are beaten, knowing we should have won.

The road was easy when we look back.

The pains forgotten after the wounds have healed. The victory won is worth it, the friendship achieved would have never been bought.

Go in faith in yourself to achieve someday, somehow, somewhere, something worthwhile. You can.

PW Cerruty