Believe and Achieve! alter Davis was a great athlete and he achieved everything he believed in. As a boy, he contracted infantile paralysis, and the doctors feared that he might not be able to walk again. His mothers loving care and attention put the boy back on his feet. As he began to walk slowly, he saw a boy doing the high jump and thought to himself: "That is something I would love to do!" So he began practising the high jump, until he became very good at it. But his legs were still weak, and serious competition was out of the question for him. He kept up his painstaking efforts to strengthen them. When he married, his wife understood his aspirations and said to him, "Walter, it is not enough to have power in your legs. You must have power in your mind!" She coined a new phrase for him: The strength of belief. This, she said would bring greater strength to his legs. Strength of belief took Walter Davis to great heights. Eventually, it helped him create a world record. He cleared the bar at six feet eleven and fiveeighths inches - propelled by his strength of belief. The boy they said might never walk again became the High Jump Champion of the world! Belief was his strength - and so he believed and achieved! - - -
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