No Excuse Will Hold Up To This

Landis Sims was a star baseball player in high school, leading his team to a championship. He was so good, in fact, that the Yankees and Padres signed him to a contract. He became friends with Padres pitcher, Joe Musgrove and former Yankee Alex Rodriguez. He had offers from San Diego State University and Point Loma Nazarene University (he chose PLNU). Heck, they even made a movie about him, Just Watch Me. Landis Sims was born without hands or legs below his knees. He started playing youth baseball at the age of four and loved it. He worked through his challenges using prosthetics and earned his roster spot on his high school team. He admits that baseball is challenging, which is one of the reasons he loves it so much. It teaches us that failure is a part of life and we learn more from it than we do from success. Although he isn't playing college baseball, he is working hard preparing to participate in teh 2028 Para Olympics in Los Angeles as a volleyball player. He's a part of a big family of challenged athletes and with whom he finds inspiration, encouragement, and support. When we say we can't do something and yet we have our health (and hands and feet) it seems to me we're selling ourselves short. As Thomas Edison said, "If we did all the things we're capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."