Lionel Messi is a man of many talents. First—and most obviously—is his aptitude for soccer. Widely regarded as the greatest ...

John Walton Smith came tantalizingly close to winning a gold medal at the Olympics. But fate intervened. A track star, Smith was ranked No. 1 in the world in the early 1970s. He broke the record in ...

Life doesn’t always listen. But maybe, that’s not failure. Maybe, that’s the lesson. We’ve all been there—believing that if ...