Champions seek the good of others irrespective of their own feelings. Champions stay in the game. The Greek word for endurance has a literal meaning of abiding under. The team failed to abide under the discipline of their game plan. Champions who refuse to eat contaminated grain have the inward strength to withstand stress so they can accomplish God's best.
Champions give personal care appropriate to the other person's emotional needs.
Gentleness is a work God does deep in our souls in which we accept His dealing with us a good, and therefore without disputing or resisting. This freedom manifests itself in an outward gentleness toward others. We're no longer seen as fighting and clawing to reach our place in the sun. Families love to sit at the feet of gentle champions and hear them recite the legends of earlier champs who had the right stuff. I'm talking about legends of righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.