"Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles."

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Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

— George Will