It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant, and that is how I did feel -- as if I were invisible to the naked eye and some of those Sophs might step on me.
I wasn't afraid a Soph might walk over me; I was afraid they'd take me for an elephant, or an overgrown sample of a potato-fed Islander."
Soph. Thou dost not, Martius, And, therefore, not what 'tis to live; to die Is to begin to live.
Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent To them I ever loved best?
Soph. Martius, O Martius, Thou now hast found a way to conquer me.
Plato uses them, though he also criticises them; he acknowledges that both he and others are always talking about them, especially about the Idea of Good; and that they are not peculiar to himself (Phaedo; Republic; Soph.).
Nor in what may be termed Plato's abridgement of the history of philosophy (Soph.), is any mention made such as we find in the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics, of the derivation of such a theory or of any part of it from the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Heracleiteans, or even from Socrates.
(Compare for Anaxagoras, Phaedo, Laws; for the Sophists, Meno, Republic, Tim., Theaet.,
Soph., etc.) But at the same time he shows that he is not one of them.
Promising sophs: Ian Cameron (distance), Daevin Diaz (jumps), Richie Jacobo (distance), Ricky Orozco (throws), Jaden Rasheed (sprints), Mossimo Vardamaskos (sprints)
Promising newcomers: Andriy Mykulyanych (Sr., sprints), Isaac Suh (Soph, high jump), TJ West (Jr., throws), Jon Peici (Jr., sprints)
Top returners: Will Rezny (Sr., shot), Zach Olberg (Sr., sprints), Sean Felkes (Sr., sprints), Ian Simonson (Sr., pole vault), Brad Figiel (Sr., distance), Eddie Lennon (Jr., distance), Joseph Boyer (Jr., throws), Tim Szylak (Jr., sprints), CJ Miller (Jr., mid-distance), Matt Schoessling (Jr., sprints), Alec Rebsamen (Jr., sprints), Nick Greazel (Soph., sprints), Sergio Castro (Soph., sprints), Stephen Barretto (Fr., sprints), Mick Lawlor (Fr., high jump)
Top newcomers: Ted Giang (Jr., jumps), Jason Aguilar (Soph., sprints), Matt Chludzinski (Soph., sprints), Ryan Glassberg (Jr., jumps), Sebastian Vences (Jr., distance), Esteban Lagunes (Soph., distance), Jordan Teran (Soph., distance), Jackson Gross (Jr., distance), Kelvin Chavez (Sr., distance), Jorge Pizano (Sr., distance), Justin Hall (Jr., throws), Ivan Muro (Jr., throws)
Newcomers: Juniors: Will Adamski, C; Mitch Johnson, P; Daniel Kubsik, OF; Tom Quirk, OF/P; Tim Ridge, P; Trey Schmidt, P/INF; Kyle Smith, C/P; Ryan Trachsel, INF; Sophs: Daniel Clawson, INF; Hunter Luke, P/INF; Luke Picchiotti, P/OF.
Soph: Jacob Johnson-Wright, OF; Luke Joyce, INF/OF/
Newcomers: Soph: Josh Rivera, P; Fresh: Eric Pacson, P; Jack Bentz, SS/P