CHAPTER 8BELIEF(SUCCESS SECRET #1)

February 11, 1999: at Garden City High School (on our practice court)

All I could think to myself was, “This is our reward for going 12–0 in the division?”

After I had led my high school basketball team to only its third undefeated season in more than 50 years, my coach had just informed the team that we somehow got passed over for the #1 seed and instead received the #2 seed in the Nassau County playoffs. Our opponent?

Perennial powerhouse Westbury High School.

At the start of the season, Westbury High School had (as always) been seeded #1 out of the ...

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