Paying the price

Everything has a price tag. What does being good, great, the best in the world mean to you? What price would you put on that? The following excerpts are the most most motivating reads. The bar is set so high. Check it out,
An excerpt from Wrestling Tough by Mike Chapman.

"I can pay the price" to be great, say millions of athletes. What they really mean to say is, "I can pay a certain price, but don't ask me to go beyond what I think I am capable of doing." Ninety-nine percent of athletes will come up toa line in the sand and halt. Once a person has entered into the pain threshold of severe training, he or she, naturally tends to shut down.
"OK, that's it," is what most of us tell ourselves. "I'm hurting, I've worked hard enough and put in enough hours. I've paid the price." At that point, however we are just knocking on the door of paying the price.

Its hard to even begin to quantify the words Paying the Price. But for me it means, I am not working as hard I can everyday. I am beaten up in sparring, beating myself up in the gym 4 times a week. Drilling almost everyday (or when I can). Is that enough? Is waking up at 8am to get to Next Level to do S&C then straight to BJJ right after, then another bjj session at night, is that enough? I don't feel it is enough at all. Keep reading.

"Coaches would always come to Iowa to try and figure out what Gable did differently, what his secret to success was. It was hard work," said Troy Steiner, NCAA champion and four-time All-American during his Hawkeye days. "But, like Gable always said, most people do not know what hard work is."

"Most people do not know what hard work is." To answer my own question. Do I really know what hard work is?

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