People have no idea how insanely hard it is to be a successful pro athlete.
http://www.davebarry.com/president/d...lumns/long.htm
Dave Barry wrote one of the greatest articles on this, featuring NBA's Grant Long. Hilarious and so true.
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Even the most marginal NBA player is an absurdly better athlete than an ordinary person. When basketball people say that Grant Long can't shoot, can't pass, can't dribble, what they mean is: He can shoot, pass and dribble better than you, better than anybody you know, better than all but a few hundred people in the world. Long's jump shot is so bad, by NBA standards, that his team never runs a play designed to set him up for it; but you could practice your jump shot every day forever and still never beat him in a game of Horse. '