September 24th, 2008 by SMO
The other night when I was down at the Tampa batting cages, I met a young boy who was full of spunk and determination. You could tell that he really loved the game and I was inspired by how he would give every swing of the bat his best efforts and that he was happy with a good hit and critical of himself when he missed. He was about eight years old and I had never seen anyone so young be so motivated by any one thing.
I got to talking with his dad and I found out that he had just returned from Tampa baseball camp and that he had been told that he was a natural there to someday be able to play in the major leagues. His dad said that it had gotten to his head a little bit and he wanted to practice all day long now for his future career as a baseball player.
He came over to where we were talking and even offered me some “real Tampa softball lessons”. I told him that I would love to take him up on them, but I had to get going. I wished his dad luck with him and I walked away with a smile on my face. I really do hope this little boy gets his dream one day. I know if he doesn’t, it will certainly not be for lack of determination.
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October 19th, 2007 by autoPiloting
Picture this - it’s your junior year of high school and everyone around you is rapidly completing their college applications. Everyone’s talking about which types of colleges they are going to with the most popular choices being community college, liberal arts colleges and art or technical schools. When the conversation comes around to you, you say that you’re going to golf college. Everyone laughs at you. They haven‘t even heard of golf schools. You might be ashamed at first but hold out for awhile and see what happens.
Now picture this - you’re at your ten year high school reunion. The kids who went to art school are complaining about the menial jobs that they have to work to make a living while trying to create art. The community and liberal arts kids are lamenting the amount of loan money that they took out to study topics that turned out to be less than useful in the real world. The technical college folks aren’t at the reunion because they’re working eighty hour weeks to get an edge up in their engineering firms. And you’re sipping cocktails and contentedly talking about the satisfaction you derive from your golf career. You may have been the joke of your school, but who do you think is going to have the last laugh?
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