1. David Beckham

David Beckham is a famous football player in England, but when he was a child, he wanted to be a player on the cross-country sports car team. . Beckham's family was very supportive. The whole family saved money and paid all the expenses for him.

Soon after Beckham joined the team, he received an opportunity. The famous Essex cross-country race will kick off in four months. But unfortunately, when I learned the news, I had already missed the registration time.

Despite this, the team owner is still determined to take this opportunity to make the team famous no matter what. Next, the boss bought a lot of gifts and went to visit Mr. Huntley, the organizer of the competition.

As a result, the boss came back dejectedly carrying the gift. But he still didn't give up and sent several capable assistants to visit, but they still returned without success.

In the team’s internal meeting, many runners said in frustration: “We just watched helplessly and missed the Essex cross-country race.”

At this time, the young Beckham Mu volunteered and said: "Let me try, I believe I can get this place." The boss looked at this young child and said with a bit of scorn: "What about you? Even I was ruthlessly rejected. You are sure you can convince him, but why do you do that?"

Beckham patted his chest and said: "I dare to issue a military order, but if I can get it smoothly, I hope I can represent the team. Go out and play." Seeing that Beckham was so confident, the boss readily agreed to him.

With the address given by his boss, Beckham successfully found Huntley's villa, but was blocked by the nanny. "Hello." Beckham politely took out the team's business card and said, "Please tell Mr. Huntley that I want to talk to him about racing." A few minutes later, the nanny came out and said, "I'm sorry, sir, You have been here several times, there is no need to contact me again."

Beckham still smiled and said: "It's okay, please tell Mr. Huntley that I will come again tomorrow."< /p>

The next night, Beckham arrived in front of Huntley's villa early. He chose to knock on the door at eight o'clock on time, and the nanny still received him. Beckham smiled and said: "Please tell Mr. Huntley that I want to talk to him about racing."

The nanny couldn't bear to brush off his kindness and went in to report. After a while, the nanny came out and said: " "Son, you'd better go." Beckham said confidently: "I will still come tomorrow."

In the next three months, Beckham came every day. Over the weekend, Beckham insisted on coming over twice a day to visit, although he never saw Mr. Huntley once.

But Beckham still did not give up. One rainy night, he came over again. It was still the nanny who opened the door. The nanny said: "Son, I've done the math for you. Including this time, you've been here a hundred times. Our husband is watching the game. He shouldn't see you."

When he found out that Huntley was still a die-hard fan, Beckham's eyes suddenly lit up. He walked to the hall and said: "Mr. Huntley, I won't talk to you about cars today. Let's talk about football." Let's do it." When the sound of the TV in Huntley's room was heard to be much weaker, Beckham began to talk about the current situation of English football and his ambitions.

After a while, the door opened and Huntley walked out, "You are a person with profound insights into football. For someone who is so persistent, I believe your future is bright. So, I'm willing to talk to you about the details of this competition." Next, the two people talked for two hours in the study room, discussing all the details of the Beckham team's participation in the Essex cross-country running competition.

One month later, the Essex Cross-Country Running Competition was held as scheduled. With his outstanding performance, Beckham won the Essex Cross-Country Running Competition. Many years later, Beckham switched to football. Because of his perseverance, his football career also prospered. His hard-earned free kick and long pass skills have become a magic weapon for repeated victories on the field.

Every time he meets with fans, many fans ask him the secret of success. Beckham always says sincerely: "What I want to tell you is that there is nothing more important in this world than persistence." A powerful weapon, I want to give you a sentence, which is also a summary of my life: one setback is failure, and a hundred setbacks is success.

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2. Yi Jianlian

He was born in an ordinary working-class family in Heshan City, Guangdong. His parents are both honest postal workers. Both parents are taller than 1.70 meters. Because Due to genetics, he was born taller than his peers, which made him appear arrogant.

Due to work transfer, he came to Shenzhen with his father when he was two years old. p>When he was 3 years old, he learned how to break the electrical appliances at home. When he was 4 years old, he beat the neighbor's children until they knelt down and begged for mercy. After only one week in the kindergarten, he became the king of destruction in the class. All his classmates disliked him and avoided him. The teacher often called home to complain.

Because he had fewer and fewer friends, he simply started playing basketball at that time. , and only basketball is his only friend. If he has any happiness or sorrow, he will say it loudly while dribbling. In his opinion, it is a normal thing, but others secretly call him crazy.

When he was 7 years old, he entered a relatively good school in Shenzhen. He learned basketball from the most famous teacher in the school.

He did not believe that he could not achieve something. He vowed to his mother, just watch, in less than 10 years, I will become the most valuable player in the history of Chinese basketball. In the eyes of his family, his words were just a meaningless consolation for his ideal. , he achieved nothing.

At the age of 10, he was already 1.80 meters tall. He firmly remembered the oath he made back then, and he formed a team with several friends who also loved basketball. He named the basketball team the "Dream Team".

After the team was formed, they began intense training. The father saw it and was happy and worried. He was so happy that he saw it from his son. Back then, he was so stubborn and energetic that he was worried that his naughty son would use his school time to practice football.

In order to supervise his studies, his father had to take time off frequently. The school visited him.

On his 12th birthday, his father took him to the amusement park. As he walked to the door, his father suddenly asked him if he wanted to go to the mountains because a youth professional competition was being held in the gymnasium there. But there were too many people waiting for the sightseeing bus, and after waiting for a long time, there was still no seat. My father suddenly suggested taking a shortcut so that the time could go faster.

He was surprised. He had been here several times and didn’t get a seat. He didn't find the shortcut his father mentioned. He smiled, turned a corner and pointed to a steep slope.

He was stunned and ignored him. A small tree climbed up in a few strokes. Eight minutes later, they walked to the front of the gymnasium. The father pointed to the way they came and said meaningfully, "Son, success is actually like us rushing to the top of the mountain." If we all take the sightseeing bus, we don’t know when our turn will be. Even if we get on it, we will be left behind by others.

Since it is just a process, why don’t we choose other ways? For example, when walking, although there are thorns and steep slopes ahead, you may fall many times, but as long as you persist, you will always be able to get ahead of others. Only in that way can you form your own advantage. His father's words stuck in his mind.

Because of his father's support and encouragement, he quickly signed up to participate in a street basketball game in Shenzhen. Although he was eliminated in the first round, he was not discouraged. He high-fived his team members and vowed to do it again next year.

Not long after returning home, he did not expect that Dai Yixin, the coach of Shenzhen Sports School, would come after hearing the news. He was glad that he met Bole. Thanks to specialized and systematic training, his height and skills have skyrocketed.

In 2001, at a height of 2.02 meters, he was selected for the Chinese National Youth Team. In the competition from 2005 to 2006, he became the youngest player in the finals in CBA history with outstanding results. Value player. He is a popular figure in Chinese basketball, Yi Jianlian, who is known as the new generation of popularity king.

In August 2007, he signed with the Milwaukee Bucks, becoming the fourth Chinese player to enter the NBA after Wang Zhizhi, Battelle, and Yao Ming. He was also the first Chinese player to go through the draft process on site. .

His wise words are: "Thorns and setbacks are nothing to a person's ideals. Despise them and climb up. You at the top of the mountain are the God who truly controls your own destiny."

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3. Mohammad de Assaf

Muhammad de Assaf, who is less than 24 years old, is a refugee from the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza. In order to be able to He participated in the pan-Arab talent competition "Arab Idol" and left Gaza, where the job market was sluggish, to find a way out for himself. He sneaked out of Gaza to Cairo, and then traveled to Lebanon to participate in the audition. However, it was delayed due to the blockade of Gaza. When he arrived in Beirut, registration had ended.

Desperate, Assaf called his mother to discuss and finally decided to climb over the wall and enter the hotel where the draft was held, but the organizing committee still maintained its original decision. A Palestinian competitor heard his voice, gave him his spot, and told him: “I know I can’t make it to the end, but you can. ”

The final ending was wonderful. Assaf defeated his two final opponents from Egypt and Syria and became the first Palestinian ever to win the “Arab Idol” title.

< p>This is a hot topic in the entire Arab world. Due to the time difference, the live broadcast of "Arab Idol" is in the early morning in Beijing, but my father, who is in his eighties, will stay in front of the TV without being reminded. An old refugee, who had experienced the humiliating years in 1948, fled from his hometown of Palestine to Syria.

His love for Assaf is not so much a form of support as it is a way to regain a sense of belonging. A long-lost sense of belonging and a feeling of losing his hometown.

The old man’s persistence also touched the four children who had never set foot in Palestine. For them, motherland is usually just a noun. Filling out various application forms is often used

Children are desperately making international calls to vote for Assaf. I believe that at this time, in Europe and the United States, Chile, Argentina, Guyana and other countries. There are countless Palestinian families in the same situation as mine.

Assaf’s success has made others know that Palestinians are not only engaged in politics and guerrillas, but also have the ability to show their talents in different fields. They have their own culture, art, and even have things that other ethnic groups do not have due to their special historical background, such as prison culture.

Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons went on a hunger strike to demand that prison officials provide them with ". "Arab Idol" live broadcast signal. In a letter to Assaf, they gave the most heroic support in history - "You must work hard, we are all losing our meat for you." ”

On social networking sites, Algerians left a message to Assaf: “Our whole family didn’t cook yesterday, everyone was looking at you.” This weekend, you are our meal. "Palestinian artworks reflect reality, inspired by oppressive life and the ongoing Israeli occupation, but they also express their pursuit of peace through music.

Appeared on a logo in 1988 Ramzi Aburedwan, the stone-throwing boy in the sex photos, grew up to become a troubadour running for peace; DAM, a rap group composed of three Israeli Arab youths, sang "Who is the Terrorist Bastard" and "I Need Freedom" and other representatives The songs of the Palestinian people spread throughout the Arab world and many European and American countries.

In early 2009, more Palestinians discovered that music is a more effective weapon than stones, after being bombed by Israel for nearly a month. In Gaza, people sang "We Will Not Go Down" to comfort the souls of more than 1,400 people.

For the three generations of Palestinians who are refugees, the previous generation was painful. A generation that has personally experienced the catastrophe of losing their homeland; we are a failed generation, living overseas and unable to support our nation and country; and what will follow will be a vague generation who are uncertain about the future and have little understanding of the past. Understand.

Assaf has successfully become a symbol that unifies three generations of Palestinians and unifies Palestinians, organizations and factions with different political ideas. At the same time, in the context of the Arab revolution, It unites all Arabs who support democracy and freedom and long for fairness and justice.

4. Dr. Johnson

His father runs a large used books stall. Once, there was a show not far away, and everyone went to the market. It was raining that day. His father wanted Dr. John to share some books and transport them to the market place for sale. His father called him three times in succession, asking him to go, but Dr. Johnson was concentrating on reading a thick and large book at this time, and pretended not to hear and ignored him. His father sighed.

I had to go there myself. At this time, Dr. Johnson was eighteen years old. Fifty years later, at 11 noon one day, the locals saw this bloated old man kneeling in the middle of the street. He put his hat under his arm, put his crutch aside, lowered his head and knelt in the sun, with tears streaming down his face.

At this time, Dr. Johnson had become famous, and everyone came to see him. He said to everyone: On the same day and at the same time fifty years ago, I disobeyed my father, and now I kneel here to repent!

5. Raphael

The Italian Renaissance painter Raphael painted a portrait of Mary holding the Son of Jesus. On the lower right of her is an old man, and on the lower left Fang is a maid. But there is a large blank space directly below, and I am thinking about what to fill in.

At this time, he saw two children from the window of the studio nearby. The older one, about four or five years old, was holding his chin, looking up at the sky and talking to his younger brother. The younger one rested his head on his arms. On the ground, he was also looking at the sky and listening to his brother's words. Raphael thought it was beautiful, so he drew them at the bottom of the painting, and added wings to make them two angels.