Who is T Alan Armstrong, who has the quote "Champions do not become champions when they win the event..."

Question

I found this quote "Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character" and the reference is by T Alan Armstrong, but I do not know who he/she is. Anyone know?

Answer 1

Alan Armstrong started volunteering in a friend's bookshop when he was eight. At 14, he was selling books at Brentano's. As an adult, every so often, he takes to the road in a VW bus named Zora to peddle used books. He is the editor of Forget Not Mee & My Garden, a collection of the letters of Peter Collinson, the 18th-century mercer and amateur botanist. He lives with his wife, Martha, a painter, in Massachusetts. http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-armstrong-alan.asp

Answer 2

Allan Armstrong

Answer 3

T Alan Armstrong is high school band director at Northgate High School in Newnan, GA. He is also the brass caption head for Atlanta CV Drum and Bugle Corps. In the quote, he is talking about marching band. "The Event" is a band competition. You become a champion in the time spent rehearsing with everything you have, giving it your all, that makes you a champion.