Camilo Rueda:
CLASS OF 2001
Alexandria, VA
Camilo's Story
Camilo's schools include Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology.
Movies Camilo likes include Two Miles From Home, "Strong Bodies Fight" Fan Page.
One of Camilo's favorite quotes is:""I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - President Thomas Jefferson
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." - Muhammad Ali
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the wor...Expand for more
st, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore roosevelt
"Get some"
- A.K. right before the fourth leg of perimeter relay, nearly noon sun, west side of the island when I needed just enough motivation
"Lead-by-example" whispered by Scuba school master diver at the exact moment I started slacking on my flutter kicks
"One for the Lady of the dome" - every PTI
"But just now. . . and just so many times, how I long for the Grotto. Away from the Grotto Dooley just prays. But at the Grotto, especially now when there must be snow everywhere and the lake is ice glass and that triangular fountain on the left is frozen solid and all the priests are bundled in their too-large too-long old black coats and the students wear snow boots. . . . if I could go to the Grotto now then I think I could sing inside. I could be full of faith and poetry and loveliness and know more beauty, tenderness and compassion." -- Father Dooley in letter to Father Hesburgh".
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