When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low — Daniel Rodriguez, Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low — Daniel Rodriguez, Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low — Daniel Rodriguez, Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low — Daniel Rodriguez, Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low — Daniel Rodriguez, Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
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When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

— Daniel Rodriguez, Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept
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