"Now go match that, you young pups, and straightaway
I’ll hurl you another just as far, I swear, or even farther!
All the rest of you, anyone with the spine and spirit,
step right up and try me – you’ve incensed me so –
at boxing, wrestling, racing; nothing daunts me.
Any Phaeacian here except Laodamas himself.
The man’s my host. Who would fight his friend?
He’d have to be good-for-nothing, senseless, yes,
to challenge his host and come to grips in games,
in a far-off land at that. He’d cut his own legs short."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 8, lines 233-242. Odysseus issues this challenge after he grabs a discus, heavier than any used by the Phaeacians in the games, and hurls it past all those previously thrown. Angered by an ill-mannered Phaeacian who insults his athetic abilities, he proudfully boasts about his skill in boxing and wrestling.