Mike's Famous Failures!
- Didn't walk until 16 months old.
- Fat kid.
- Four years of speech class (R's and S's were a problem).
- Two years of special (read: slow) reading class.
- Afraid of getting hit by the ball in baseball (since I was six and got beaned!).
- Didn't ride a two-wheeler until he was seven.
- Lost an estimated 150 games in basketball, baseball and football since sixth grade.
- Fouled Tim Fredman at the "buzzer" at Hartland Arrowhead in 1980 causing his team to lose by a point once Tim made two free throws with "no time" left.
- Failed in a baseball tryout with the K.C. Royals.
- Cut TWICE in college trying to make the U.W.-Whitewater baseball team.
- Failed TWICE in business, once in 1988 and once in 1998. The second time we lost our house and had to live in a duplex for eight months.
- ELIMINATED from his regional sales manager job on November 13, 2001.
- Finished "dead last" in every natural bodybuilding show he has ever entered: 1989 North American Classic, (7th 0f 7), 1993 Prarieland Classic (6th of 6), and the 1998 Mr. Wisconsin Masters (2nd of 2).
Not bad for a guy from "small-town Saukville" who has:
- Flown on the Concorde at twice-the-speed of sound.
- Visited 16 countries (including Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Prague, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Aruba, Hawaii (7 times) Acapulco, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta).
- Has been on thirteen cruises.
- Was recently featured on Channel 12 at noon (WISN in Milwaukee) promoting his first book...Fit Happens at any age.
Seems like failure has agreed with him.
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