“I started early and stayed late, day after day, year after year. It took 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.” Lionel Messi 2011 – Hollywood, California: Actor Taylor Sheridan was excited to be returning for the third season as chief...
“You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.” Les Brown 1995 – Dallas, Texas: Carl Henry, a literacy recruiter, knocked on the door of the small, dilapidated house in south Dallas. He informed the older gentleman who answered the door...
“You don’t have to be a hero to accomplish great things. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” Edmund Hillary April 6, 1967 – Gulf of Tonkin – North Vietnam: Doug Hegdahl went up on the deck of the U.S.S. Canberra...
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson January 11, 2012 – Mt. Kilimanjaro – Tanzania, Africa: 25-year-old Kyle Maynard lay in his tent at 6,400 feet and cried. His shoulders ached so badly he...
“Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.” Tim McGraw 1959 – Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia: The headaches and fatigue had persisted for several months. Anthony Burgess dismissed it as a mysterious tropical illness, but he finally agreed to...
“How it is, isn’t how it has to be, it is simply how it is right now. Your possibilities are as limitless as your dreams.” James Richardson 1985 – Pensacola, Florida: At midnight, 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber sat alone in the bus station....
