"I never understood why sports people are not the most humble people in the world, because in sport, which involves physical activity, what you are trying to do is squeeze the last drop of physical power and performance out of yourself - without dying. And if you are gonna do that, the only way you can do that is confronting your weaknesses and you discover, when you really set the test for yourself and you apply yourself against the test day after day after day, you discover that, the thing that is stopping you winning
isn't your competitor, it's yourself, it's your own weaknesses. And so you start to work on that. You try to build strength where there are weaknesses. So in my view, top athletes should have a much more conscious view of their own weaknesses than the normal population. And that should bring humility."
Herb Elliot, 1500m Olympian
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