I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love an

I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was      and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still      to have a dream.
My dream was     . By the time I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and    anything that moved on the football field. I was also      : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me     to believe in myself.  He    me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular _    with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend remended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket-money for a new bike, new clothes and the    of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to    up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was as     as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” He said. “Your     days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head     , trying to think of the    to explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his     in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job?” He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made    for me the difference between    something right now and having a     . I devoted myself to sports that summer and     the year I was chosen by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was     a $20,000 contract. My baseball scholarship got me through university and in 1984 I signed with Denver Broncos for $1.7 million and bought my mother the house of her dreams.
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