summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing. I was
12
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
14
days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”
I stood before him with my head
15
, trying to think of how to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth
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his disappointment in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job?” he demanded.
“$ 3.25 an hour,” I replied.
“Well, is $ 3.25 an hour the price of a
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?” he asked.
That
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laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I devoted myself to
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that summer, and within the year I was offered a $ 20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1984 for $ 1.7 million, and bought my mother the
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of my dreams.
1.A.some B.little C.no D.much
.A.happy B.lovely C.Angry
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