December, 1985 Dear Father, Thank you, Father, for helping me through what has been both a challenge and a struggle. Writing by hand has been difficult for me and for those who have helped me translate my writing to book form. Because of problems with my speech, it has been hard to deal with the many details of editing and printing. Thank you also, Father, for allowing my employment to continue, for helping me to overcome the daily problems of working and living, and for allowing me to find some pleasures, too, even some girls and their love. Thank you for the many friends you have helped me make, in my church and in others, in high school, in college, at workand for the help they have given me. And finally, thank you for my wonderful family, and for the strength you have given them in helping me survive. Mike Straights diary spans seven and one-half years. It is a story of early teens, triumphs in football, tragedy, and striving to become whole again after an automobile accident at age 16. While it was a tremendous blow to be denied his beloved sport of football, he fought his way upward to many accomplishments though confined, for the most part, to a wheelchair. Since his accident he has learned how to drive again, owned several cars, bought (and sold) his own home, gone to three colleges, and has held a manufacturing assembly job for the last several years. Now, in addition to his job, he lifts weights, exercises daily, and goes dancing. Mike has had, for him, great success (that most of us enjoy as normal). Yet love has eluded him; not having the true love of a woman returned to him has been his ongoing trial, as his diary will tell you. Only through a deep love for God, and a sometimes wavering and often challenged faith in Him, has Michael sustained his determination to be good, better, best. That he has been able to write and publish this book is a tremendous tribute to both his faith and his determination, as you will see.

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his country, fifteen-year-old Liam Brady travelled to London to join Arsenal, and soon became an indispensable part of their glorious 1970s team. Rightly considered one of the Republic of Ireland's best-ever footballers, he went on to enjoy successes with Juventus, Sampdoria and West Ham, as well as managing Celtic and Brighton and Hove, and becoming assistant manager of his national team. Today he is best known for his much-respected TV punditry and searingly intelligent insights into the game he adores. Full of honest insights, amusing anecdotes and recollections of extraordinary times, with Born to be a Footballer Brady delivers a compelling story of a fifty-year career that is unparalleled in Irish sport.

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WHO IS STRAIGHT? I, Michael A. Straight, have a newer, Divinely inspired responsibility to tell the public, readers of my initial autobiography - I am in this Human Race for its duration. You can t keep THIS good man down! Even though, my initial autobiography s Editor has moved on through his death, I am self-motivated, determined or, bull-headed enough that I BELIEVE IN MYSELF and will self-write, self-edit, actually live and record my life s personal occurrences, situations, and trials - emerging VICTORIOUS! VIA -my God, my Savior, my loving family, the National/Ohio Head Injury Association / Foundation, Christian friends, and my STRONG self motivated will. I want to give the public an example by my life s trials, tests of faith - both in God and in myself, VICTORIES, and continuous life - that life IS worth living - despite a Traumatic Brain Injury, and the time it steals from a life. Sure my life may not be as Good as it has been, but it is NOT as bad as it could be either...but I AM ALIVE - and I have been selected to live my life - the best way that I can IN THIS SEQUEL: I meet girls, enjoy dates, acquire knowledge, experience at 4 different Colleges/Universities, having employment, UN-employment, living at home with Ma n Pa till I was 31 years old, a Walt Disneyland vacation, a Bahamas Island cruise, Grove City, OH and many more experiences that won t all fit in a synopsis, but only in an entire book If you re interested already, please read on... once you start, you won t want to STOP! The Author, MICHAEL A. STRAIGHT