<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Others might question him, but Mike Dunleavy rarely questions himself. He's unsinkable, a good trait for a Clipper coach. An ambitious New Yorker who has taken on his most ambitious challenge in trying to transform a longtime loser into a winner, Dunleavy has defied long odds since his birth 50 years ago next month. Coming into the world seven weeks premature, he weighed only 3 pounds 8 ounces. Doctors gave him a 10% chance to live, but by the time he'd reached Nazareth Regional High in Brooklyn, Dunleavy had developed into a promising baseball prospect, if only a middling basketball player, at which time his baseball coach suggested he'd probably be better off concentrating on one sport. To the dismay of the helpful coach, his own parents and assorted other relatives and rivals, who all said he was crazy, he picked basketball. "Good luck," his father said. "You're not going to make it."</div> Link
