Rene Lacoste, the worldโs top tennis player in the late 1920s, won seven major singles titles during his career, including multiple victories at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the French Open. His friends called him โLe Crocodile,โ an apt term for his tenacious play on the court.
Lacoste accepted the nickname and had a tiny crocodile embroidered on his tennis blazers. When he added it to a line of shirts he designed, the symbol caught on. While thousands of people around the world wore โalligator shirts,โ the emblem always had a deeper significance for Lacosteโs friends who knew its origin and meaning.
The cross, an emblem of Christianity, holds special meaning for every friend of Christ. Whenever we see a cross, it speaks to us of Christโs tenacious determination to do His Fatherโs will by dying for us on Calvary. What a privilege to know Him and be included inโฆ
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