Less than one percent off all high school athletes make it to the professional level. Can you imagine how much endurance (both mental and physical) it took for former one handed baseball pitcher JIM ABBOTT to play in major league baseball?
JULIO IGLESIAS was a remarkable athlete who sparkled among his teammates in the Real Madrid soccer team as goalkeeper. His dream one day was to play professional soccer. But on the night of Sept 22nd, 1963, when he was 20 years old something happened to him that would change his life forever!
While he was driving from Majadahonda to Madrid at around 2 a.m. with some friends: Enrique Clemente Criado, Toto Arroyo & Pedro Luis Iglesias; a tragic auto accident left him semi-paralyzed for a year and a half. There was no hope that he would walk again. At night, in Madrid's Eloy Gonzalo Hospital, Julio would listen to the radio and write poems - sad, romantic verses of poems that questioned man's mission in life. Eladio Magdaleno, the young male nurse who took care of him, gave him a guitar. Julio chose not to give up and look at him now.
Can you guess which U.S. President this was? The value of persistence is well illustrated in the following life story. Consider the following…
Failed in business...age 22
Defeated for legislature...age 23
Again failed in business...age 24
Elected to legislature...age 25
Sweetheart died...age 26
Had nervous breakdown...age 27
Defeated for Speaker...age 29
Defeated for Elector...age 31
Defeated for Congress...age 34
Defeated for Senate...age 46
Defeated for Vice President...age 47
Defeated for Senate...age 49
Elected President...age 51
This man was ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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