Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.
Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.
Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.
Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.
If it hurts, make it hurt more.
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.