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Success is impossible when you don’t believe you deserve it. #success #successmindset

27 Sept 2023 · 0 min

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Andy Neary, a free agent pitcher who wasn't a high draft pick and didn't throw 95 mph, describes feeling like a chubby kid on the mound. He saw the 18-foot circle as a mental prison because he didn't believe he deserved to be there.

How can you pitch when you're 5 foot 6? How can you pitch when you're 5 foot 6?
And in that moment.
That 18 foot diameter of the pitcher's mound, which had been my safe haven for years, became my mental prison.
Because standing on that mound in front of 5,000 people, I became that chubby kid again.
Here I was, a free agent in pro baseball. I wasn't a high draft pick. I didn't throw 95 miles an hour. I don't fit in.