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stillers4me
10-17-2010, 08:18 AM
Sunday, October 17, 2010
By Ron Cook (http://www.post-gazette.com/search/archive.asp?cCat=87), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Few NFL players, if any, are tougher than Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward.
None is more insecure.
It's an amazing dichotomy, isn't it?
Ward's toughness is out of this world. You know that. You see it every Sunday when he takes the most punishing of hits and gives out his share as one of the best blocking receivers the NFL has known, always with that same, lovin'-life smile on his face. It's among the many reasons he's lasted 13 seasons in the league. It's a big reason he will be enshrined one day in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, where he will join the Steelers' great receivers before him -- Lynn Swann and John Stallworth -- for eternity.
But Ward's unfathomable insecurity also has been critical to his success. To say it drives him every day would not be a stretch.



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