Each week, we’ll hear a new This I Believe essay – this week by Lex Urban.
Sports teaches us many useful 
lessons: How to be a team player, how to handle defeat, and how excellence comes with practice. Lex Urban learned a different lesson on his Little League ballfield – one he’s carried with him to this day. After college, Urban performed a year of full-time community service and civic leadership as an AmeriCorps member of City Year in Washington, DC. Urban still lives in Washington DC, where he practices law.
Click here to read a transcript and to listen to the audio of his This I Believe essay.
Click here for guidelines to submit your own statement of beliefs.