Pistol Pete put in 20,000 hours of work to become great
2 min readTo possessed and obsessed by I was so Dedicated to it I’ll tell you some of The things I used to do we lived two and A half miles outside of town in Clemson South Carolina and I used to get to Basketball and I’d dribble in all the Way I would not accept the ride I would Dribble in with my right hand and Dribble back home in my left hand five Miles a day to the gym where I play Eight to ten hours a day when I finally Got a bicycle when I was about 11 years Old 10 11 years old I learned to dribble The basketball on my bicycle all the way In it made a lot easier to get into town Too and I got there quicker And I dribbled the ball literally on the By riding the bicycle it got so bizarre That my dad came to me one day and he Says Pete come on get your basketball And let’s go in the car I said where are We going he says I’ll tell you when we Get there he went over and he went on This Pacific Highway and there weren’t Many cars there and he said now look I Want you to get in the back seat stick Yourself out that back window there and You start dribbling the ball I’m gonna Drive at various speeds I want to see if You can really control this thing