Inside Power
Chapter 1
You can be shunned and scorned,” my grandfather said. “You can be abused and confused, but if you have Inside Power, you have everything. Inside Power is what gets you through.”
I thought Grandpa was talking about blasting the ball when they pitch it close to your body.
Turns out that was only part of it.
This business of Inside Power is the lesson of a lifetime. Fact is, it’s the story of my life: how I learned it, lost it, and finally found it again; how Inside Power changed everything about me.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to preach or give some lecture.
I’m just going to tell you a story about how a boy became
a man.
It starts in the backyard when I’m four.
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The summer heat was brutal. Must have been a hundred degrees, but I didn’t care. I was with my uncle. My uncle was my sunshine. My uncle was letting me into his world and, man, my heart was singing.
Two little boys running around the backyards and sandlots of Tampa, Florida, 1972.
Dwight Gooden, age eight.
Gary Sheffield, age four.
Dwight was my uncle, Mama’ ...
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