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Those Who Make Us What We Are l I hadn’t thought too much about it until that day. I think the reason why was that, in my junior and senior years of high school, I received a lot of acclaim in athletics. I won honors in football, wrestling, and track. I don’t mention this to brag, but to do just the opposite - to use it as a means to indicate what might happen when we are caught up in our own success, not paying attention to what and who got us there. But on that day, I thought much deeper about it. The reason was because of something I saw. I was almost always the last person into the locker room after practice, and that night before the match against our biggest rival was no different. I knew what it took to be a champion, and when the rest of the team headed to the showers, I turned and ran an extra mile. It was always that extra bit of effort, when I was absolutely exhausted, that gave me the edge in a game, 5