The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.
-- Kerri Strug
About the Quote
When we're born, we all have the ability to achieve greatness. After that, our lives unfold in ways which allow the ability to achieve greatness to develop and to come forth, or in ways which dampen this ability to the point where we forget we ever had it or we never discover that we had it to begin with.
Like talents, this ability needs to be used and perfected in order to be valuable or of any use. The more we work with the ability to achieve greatness, the more likely it is that we will. The more we stifle our ability to achieve greatness, the less likely it ever happens.
Nurture is supposed to unlock within each of us this ability to achieve greatness. This begins with the parents, and it continues into institutions such as schools, athletic teams, houses of worship, professional societies, and the armed forces. Part of this nurture is ensuring that the children receive the proper nutrition-- familial, mental, social, spiritual, and educational.
Each person's ceiling of greatness is different from everyone else's. What matters is how each of us reaches our ceiling. When we believe that we can achieve our greatness, we will. When we believe we will fail, we will fail. We may as believe that we can soar to great heights.
Some Information about Kerri Strug
Kerri Allyson Strug was born in Tucson, Arizona, US on 1977-November-19.
Kerri Strug was a gymnast for the US Olympic team which competed in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games; this team of female gymnasts went on to become known as "The Magnificent Seven" on the strength of the team's history-making performance at those Olympics. Kerri Strug herself is best known for her Gold Medal-clinching second vault done on a sprained right ankle.
At a very young age, Kerri Strug expressed an interest in becoming a gymnast like her siblings. Since age 4 she was taking gymnastics classes, and at age 6 she was taking private lessons from the gymnastics coach at the University of Arizona, Jim Gault.
When she was 7, after the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games, Kerri Strug visited her sister at the summer camp in Houston, Texas, US run by legendary coach Béla Károlyi, naturalized American. The former coach of the 1976 Romanian Olympic Team which featured Nadia Comaneci had been training Gold Medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton. From that moment, Károlyi wanted to train her, but her parents wanted her to focus on her education. When she turned 12, Keri Strug told her parents that she wanted more for herself, and that included competing in the Olympics. Reluctantly, her parents agreed to let her enroll full-time at Károlyi's expensive school in Houston. In 1991, Strug moved to Houston to start the next phase of her life.
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