Basketball
“People always told me what I couldn’t do...I wanted to prove the naysayers wrong every day.”
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Baseball
Eight MLB teams turned him down – including the one that eventually signed him. Here's how it happened.
Basketball
“When the accident happened, I was thinking like: ‘What am I going to do now?’”
Baseball
Cut three times in high school, this former junior college walk-on ignored the doubters and “bugged” his way into pro baseball.
Stories
“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere.”
Football
"You're doing some help with some film breakdowns, and then you're doing some McDonald's runs at 2 AM...you’ve gotta earn your stripes."
Stories
They laughed at him in high school. Now he's gearing up for football's biggest stage.
Basketball
"I did stupid things. But I learned...And once I had a goal, I never gave up."
Football
While his superstar QB traveled a conventional path, David Girardi’s journey started in an unlikely place.
Stories
After failing to break into the WWE three different times, Vince McMahon deemed him “not marketable”.