Lecture 5 — Run that you may obtain

Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;

but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.