WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION (or A SUCCESSFUL TRADER

WHAT MAKES A CHAMPION (or A SUCCESSFUL TRADER)

The thing that makes a champion is obvious enough:
It isn’t any mystic prestidigitator’s stuff.
It’s nothing more than giving to whatever be the chore,
The power that is in you - and a small scintilla more,
It isn’t any wizardry’, it’s not a magic gift,
It’s merely lifting honestly the load you have to lift;
Or, in the game you’re playing, it is using all your store
Of grit and nerve and energy – and just a trifle more.
The thing that makes a champion is simple, plain and clear:
It’s never being “almost, “just about”, or pretty near”,
It’s summoning the utmost from your spirit’s inner core
And giving every bit of it – and just a little more,
“That little more-how much it is “. As deep and wide and far
As that enormous emptiness from molehill to a star,
The gulf between the earthbound and the eagles as they soar,
The champions are those who give their best – and one iota more.

Father Eumach, Coach
St. Stephans Mission