I’ll start with three (in no particular order)
JJ Watt
Ben Watson
Tim Tebow
Any others?
Khaled Hosseini is a good one. He was born in Afghanistan and his dad worked as a diplomat for the government. His family had to get political asylum in the US after the communist revolution because they were executing all of the high level government officials. Came here at 15 without knowing English but was still able to become a doctor. While he was a full time practicing physician he would wake up three hours early to write his first novel, The Kite Runner. He wrote two more novels after that, and he's generally considered one of the best contemporary authors of the English language. Not bad for someone who didn't grow up a native speaker. He also started a charity to help people back in Afghanistan suffering from the constant warfare.
You serious Clark?
Jed Clampet
John Wooden
Teddy Roosevelt
Jocko
Ted Williams...19 all star years in baseball , baseball hall of Fame , fought in WWII and Korean wars. Awarded Presidential Metal of Freedom and IGFA hall of fame member.
Uh Nick Chubb
“Me? heck no” great movie btw
These are just a few that come to my mind...
Roger Staubach (Class act his whole life)
Vince Dooley (Humble and generous)
Curtis Martin (His hall of fame acceptance speech is simply EPIC!!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLsCPuI0QA
Walter Payton
His museums are just down the road from me, maybe 4 miles. Awesome stuff in there.
I've been. He does have some awesome stuff in there. He's so personable and friendly and ready to talk to anybody that stops by if he's in the museum at the time. We went to a drag race in Commerce when our kids were small and he let them into his pits and since his race was over they let them crawl all over his car. I was amazed.
Chipper Jones, almost 500 Homers with no help from performance enhancing drugs, at the time when every slugger took them
Granny 🍳
