True champions are gentle. Champions give personal care appropriate to another's emotional needs. Gentleness is a work God does deep in our souls in which we accept His dealing with us as 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.
True champions have determination to keep tracking to the prize.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. My understanding of this is that eternal life is the prize. A great contemporary expression for the words, lay hold of, would be, get a grip on life. Eternal life is something that is wonderful and marvellous, therefore, get a grip on it, appreciate what it is and it will transform the way you preform in the contest of life.