Aptitude?

I believe you are born with talent. Plain and simple. All that needs to be done is to bring it out of oneself. I've participated in three sports this year and well I have come to understand that its the players skill and hard work that makes them what they are, not the uniform. Its the athlete that brings life to a uniform whether it be running shoes, soccer cleat or football helmet anything. For instance I'm not the best runner. Don't get the idea that I'm saying that I am because I've come to discover some hidden talent at Gunderson High School that could easily set a record or at least break a five minute mile. I'm just one of the few that are willing to challenge their body and take it to its limit to see the end result. I don't really have a preference between brands. I really don't care much about the type of brand shoes I wear for running and I could careless about how the uniform looks. So what if it has misspelled "Grizzlies" and says "Grizzles" I like the uniform. For obvious reasons like I can think of one occasion. It was the 3rd race of this years Cross Country season and my brother was confronted by a former class mate that now attends Lincoln High School. He said some thing about how he was one of, if not the fastest runner from Lincoln. He also brought up our school, said "its sucks in just about everything it does" as well as some other stuff that I wouldn't like to type, but let me just say that they were very unpleasant. Well anyways he was dressed in him whole warm-up uniform and spandex uniform because there school could afford it. Latest running shoes that Nike came out with. He pretty much had everything that could help a runner be more aerodynamic while running.  My brother being the person that he is didn't say much and laugh about it. We didn't have much to say about it and decided to let the race make the final call. We killed. He got 25th while me and my brother took 3rd and 5th. Beat Lincoln in that race too. Goes to show that it doesn't matter what you wear what matters is the talent within oneself. I can think of plenty of occasions that this has happened maybe not exactly but were one school's team tries to say that they, because what they wear are way better than us. An we end up showing them up. Don't get me wrong it is a nice thing to have, shoes, warm-ups, and anything else that makes a team "look" like a "good" team but I believe it must and has to start with the team. It doesn't matter how much you spend to make yourself "appear" like a good athlete if you suck will still suck. Plain and simple.