We've had our golden moments, with Donavon Bailey's medal in the 100 metre sprints four years ago, and the success of our the swim team at past Olympics. It may date some of us, but there was a time when the answer would roll right off our tongues. The Olympic Medal he won in 1964 that launched his career as a boxer. What made him stand out all the more were the teachings we received somewhere along the way, as we were growing up. Don't blow your own horn.
Pride goes before a fall.
Comments would be passed on this or that person who was always out front, because they pushed themselves, or because they actually had the ability to do the task at hand. He was obsessed with being number one. He never stopped talking about being first in sales at the office. He proclaimed that he was first on the list for the next promotion. He had to be first in line to buy tickets for a game and the first to hit the parking lot after the game.