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Baseball
Meet the ultimate baseball underdog: a quiet kid with wire-framed glasses who never let any setback throw him off course, and willed himself to...
Baseball
"Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse."
Baseball
“I flunked out, my girlfriend broke up with me, I ran away from home, I started hitchhiking..."
Baseball
A life-altering pitch nearly killed him. But he refused to let it end his career.
Baseball
Kirby Puckett had no business becoming an MLB superstar. But he did it anyway.
Baseball
He overcame an eye condition called strabismus and turned a $4,000 contract into a Hall of Fame baseball career.
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?”