afford a dream.
My dream was to be a
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. When I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety – mile – per – hour fastball. I was also
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: my high – school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who
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me the difference between having a dream and showing strong belief. One particular
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with him changed my life forever.
It was a summer and a friend recommended me for a summer
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. This meant a chance for my first income – cash for a new bike and new clothes, and the
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of savings for a house for my mother. The opportunity was attracting, and I wanted to
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at it.
Then I realized I would have to
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summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. I was
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about this.
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as
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as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said. “Your
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days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”
I stood before him with my head
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