The Champ never loses (draft)

Although seemingly such a glorified and shiny title, Being a champion isn't always easy. The truth is...it is harder than most will ever imagine and furthermore it never gets any easier, it’s just that the champion adapts and continues to get better as time goes by.

Fall down seven times, get up eight, well that’s a good metaphor, but out of 365 days in a year, the champion falls a lot more than this, yet still continues to rise up again and again.

The champion falls not because they are a failure or can’t hack it.... No, the champ falls like the rest do, but the key difference is that the champ always gets back up. A champion Never Ever quits.

We fail until we succeed.

 Champions, an elite team of unspoken acknowledgment, tend to recognize each other with a silent respect in passing...Just as eagles may pass one another but not soar together, Champions are independent by nature too.

Pigeons are the type of birds that flock together and there’s a big difference between floor pecking, low altitude lingering pigeons and proud high flying eagles.

On the outside, to most of you, it looks glamorous, easy, she must have some kind of luck.

What I say to that, not to your faces, but, I say “F*** Luck”

I bleed, I sweat, I bruise, I struggle, I fight, I cry, I scream, I consider quitting for a second every now and again...but I push through, I push on, I walk tall, I stand strong, I stand proud, and I speak loud, even when I don't feel it at first.

All of those successes that you see, the accolades that you admire, those are the shiny things, the little trophies that are collected along the way and you'll never know the battle the champ faces to earn each one.

You won't know because a champion will never let you know, otherwise we wouldn't be champion.

Champs don't whine, we don't complain, we don't play victim, but I do curse, I yell, get angry, punch inanimate objects, but I keep on.

 I don't believe any easy road has ever led anywhere very special. Or at least not my idea of anywhere special.

Why should I accept the mediocrity that is continuously force fed to me, I spit that s**t out, I wont bite.

I'm striving for a lot more than mediocre. Envisioning at times more than I can muster the courage to admit or proclaim, but I have discovered truth in the fact that if your dreams don't scare you, then they aren't big enough...

In my gut, in my soul and in my heart...I am certain, certain that success in the attainment of all of my goals will one day be mine. It is this certainty, this belief, that lacks an ounce of a doubt, this inner knowing, that drives me without hesitation.

The innate belief in the fruition of my goals continues to propel me forward, even through the moments of unpredictability, temporary discouragement, and discomfort.  

For one thing is certain about a Champion, a Champ never loses, they refuse to.