Do you know what Jordan's, Woods' and Gretzky's family's athletic backgrounds are. A player doesn't have to have former pro athletes for parents to be talented. But I'll bet at least one parent was athletic enough to play high school level sports even if they didn't. I doubt there are many male flute players from the high school band spawning pro athletes.quote:Originally posted by Innocent Bystander:
The gift-Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Wayne Gretzky might fit that discription. They weren't the biggest and fastest or strongest but had something extra, something that drove them and set them apart.
And then you have the Manning family, Wow! A whole family with the gift. Genetics is a very large part of the gift there.
I laugh when people quote Pete Rose as saying he wasn't a great athlete. They don't see he's talking relative to other pro athletes. The guy was all-world in high school sports. Relative to all people who made it to high school sports he's a phenomenal athlete. Then he did the rest on hard work and determination.