But when things get tough, when as now, the prizes are bigger but the going is tougher, the weaklings are elbowed aside until they fall back and slip over the cliff.
And of course there are plenty of weaklings in the GOP caucus in Congress who will quiver in their boots the first time some hack at one of the networks asks a sternly worded question.
Despite being the country that invented soccer, England hasn't won an international tournament since 1966 and in recent years has suffered through a string of disappointments, failing to beat such soccer weaklings as Algeria and Montenegro.
That happens to be annoying when holding the device with one hand since you can't just use a thumb, or with two hands (for weaklings like us) because you have to drop one hand to do scrolling, or use a janky dual thumb method.