Baby you gotta pay
...o tournaments and clinics To increase and improve my skills? And in the sessions of daily practice When the coach prolonged the drill, Did I push myself beyond exhuastion To clinch the long, high hill? Success isn't surely guaranteed Because one possesses the tools, It's effort, faith and endurance That separates winners from fools. So to those few who perhaps are listening to what I have to say, It all boils down to one simple phrase, "BABY YOU GOTTA PAY!" There is a grind of repetition the wrestler must live with: Unending hours of practice, weight training, running, watching films, perfecting technique, fierce competition, loneliness, staleness, fatigue... only to wake up to another day of the same ol' grind. Some love it! When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When funds are low and debts are high, And you want to smile but have to sigh, When care are pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must...but never quit. Life is queer with it's twist and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a person turns about When he might have won had he stuck it ...