Years ago and because we are terrible parents, we made all of our kids join "swim team" for at least one season, so they didn't drown<LOL>.
At one of the meets, we didn't know who he was going to become, Michael Phelps was racing against the clock in an event, no one else was in the pool and he set a new Md State record. He was around 13 or 14 them.
muhammad ali , larry holmes , ernie shavers , aaron pryor , buster douglas , ray mancini , mike dokes , greg richardson , bobby joe young , harry arroyo , don king , danny greene ..... folks may not know them but they are all famous in that they all are engraved in history forever , i grew up around world champions and gangsters ........