Baseball
He overcame an eye condition called strabismus and turned a $4,000 contract into a Hall of Fame baseball career.
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“You’re half the size of everyone else, so you’re going to have to play twice as hard as everyone else and work twice as...
Baseball
How a late-blooming D2 pitcher became an MLB All-Star.
Baseball
“If you go through what I went through as a kid, not knowing if I was going to eat or who I was going...
Football
He never played college football, and worked his way up the hard way – from intern to one of the NFL’s youngest head coaches.
Basketball
"I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like...
Football
"I wanna set my goals laughably high. You know, if people aren’t doubting you, if people aren’t saying ‘that’s ridiculous’, then I don’t think...
Basketball
"Some of us take the path less traveled, and that’s what happened to me."
Football
“I didn’t want to be a gang-banger or drug dealer. It wasn’t for me. I wanted to do something for myself.”
Basketball
“It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him it was impossible. But who am I to kill someone’s dream?”
Football
413 days passed between his final college game and his first pro football game. But eight weeks later, the league folded.
Basketball
He was discovered while playing soccer at his family’s chicken stand, wearing flip flops that were clearly too small for him.
Baseball
"How do you explain .178 before I go into the service, don’t play for two years, survive Vietnam, come back here, [and in] a...