Its not about winning medals, its not about getting on the podium, its about striving for perfection.
Winning isn’t everything – means vs ends
Charles Dickens
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away
Baron de Coubertin
The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.