Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".

I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.