Drive to Succeed
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From the beginning of my life everyone told me I could be anything I wanted to. "Anything," they said, "Anything you want." Then I got older, and life became "practical." I wanted to be a doctor. "Think practically," they'd say.
I had a nickname when I was in school
That was brought up in competition:
I was “Gameface”
It was a name that I earned for a face that I made
When I exerted myself. It was a look of pure rage