The best men are needed in every walk of life.

I'll promise, in advance, not to be 'sore' if you can win it away from me." "Yes! I'd try all winter," scoffed Greg, "and then in the end some sad-eyed fellow from a back-country village would bob up and win it away from us both." "Let the sad-eyed fellow have it, if he is the better man," Dick agreed heartily.

"But fear of defeat isn't going to hold me back.
Don't let it stop you, either, Greg!" "It's going to be Annapolis for mine---the United States Naval Academy and a commission in the United States Navy!" Darry declared, his eyes snapping.
"I'd rather like that, too," Danny Grin declared.
"Then go after it," urged Dick Prescott.

"Get some real plan in your mind of what you're going to do in life, and then follow that plan, night and day, until you either win or drop from exhaustion." "Wouldn't I be a funny-looking lamb in a midshipman's uniform ?" queried Dalzell blinking fast.
"No funnier looking than any of the rest of us," Dick retorted.
"Now, Tom isn't talking much, but we all know what he's going to do, for he has already been working at it.

He has been studying surveying, for he means to make a great civil engineer of himself one of these days." "And I'm going into the game with him," declared Hazelton.
"That's because you've always had Tom about to tell you what to do, and to keep you from butting your head into things in the dark," jeered Danny Grin.