THE HERO WITHIN
Every time your back is against the wall, there is only one person that can help you. And that’s you. It comes from the inside.
—PAT RILEY
It’s not the size of a man, but the size of his heart that matters.
—EVANDER HOLYFIELD
During the 1998 WNBA finals against Houston, I walked into the Phoenix Mercury locker room before the game. Written on the chalkboard of the club that would fall one shot short of winning the title was a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A hero is no braver than the ordinary person. He is just braver five minutes longer.”
Sports is more than a contest of physical ability. As the ancient Greeks knew, sports also test courage, which comes from the Latin word meaning heart. And it’s the human heart where ...
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