Soul Food: Week of February 9, 2025

This week’s respectfully offered daily meditations:

Sunday: Winning isn’t everything on game day but waking up the next morning to a bowl full of bananas & soggy Wheaties along with the wisdom to realize you have another shot at being a true champion in life … is.

Monday: [Competition of all kinds can bring to you] the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Jim McKay

Tuesday: … And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out. Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Wednesday: Notre Dame’s Rockne: “We’re gonna beat the Army, Gus!” Dorais: “Aw, Rock!” Rockne: No, we’re gonna beat ‘em. I got an idea…”

Thursday: I used to believe, I still do, that if you give something your all it doesn’t matter if you win or lose, as long as you’ve risked everything, put everything out there.” Billy Chapel in “For the Love of the Game”

Friday: Defeat is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat. Vince Lombardi

Saturday: For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break [I got with my failing health]. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Lou Gehrig’s retirement speech

Davd Soul