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Through July 4, The Post, along with the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, will feature American citizens explaining what the American Dream means to them in 2026, including David Dill, CEO of Tennessee-based LifePoint Health, which operates more than 300 hospitals and other medical centers nationwide.
I was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
My father was a basketball coach.
My dad was an inspiration to me.
In seventh or eighth grade, [he] sat me down and had a conversation with me about, "Son, you're going to be a really good basketball player in high school, but you probably won't have a lot of playing time.
You'll probably be on the bench." It was one of those difficult discussions and my dad just let me down.
But he told me the truth.
I ended up going to the school where my dad coached basketball, in the western part of Kentucky…Murray State University.
Once they took away my dream of being a basketball player, I wanted to be a coach like my father.
And my dad urged me not to do that...he said something pretty profound, and I didn't really fully understand it at the time.
But he told me: "Son, find a career where you surround yourself with professionals, and not with children who have never been separated from their mothers, to determine your success"...
And that was his clandestine way of saying: "Don't do what I've done.
Go do something different and put people around you who are professionals at what they do, and then you can achieve great things." That's when I went from my dream of being an athlete or coach to doing something different...
Until my father passed away a few years ago, I talked to him almost every night on the way home from work.
And I would tell him that he never convinced me to stop training.
I'm still a coach.
I just don't do it on a sports court or a basketball court, but in the business world.
The American Dream Video Project showcases real stories that illuminate paths to opportunity.
Presented at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream (MCAAD), this series is part of the Center's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
MCAAD is Washington, DC's newest cultural institution, offering interactive exhibits and stories about achieving the American dream.
For more information, visit mcaad.org.
I was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
My father was a basketball coach.
My dad was an inspiration to me.
In seventh or eighth grade, [he] sat me down and had a conversation with me about, "Son, you're going to be a really good basketball player in high school, but you probably won't have a lot of playing time.
You'll probably be on the bench." It was one of those difficult discussions and my dad just let me down.
But he told me the truth.
I ended up going to the school where my dad coached basketball, in the western part of Kentucky…Murray State University.
Once they took away my dream of being a basketball player, I wanted to be a coach like my father.
And my dad urged me not to do that...he said something pretty profound, and I didn't really fully understand it at the time.
But he told me: "Son, find a career where you surround yourself with professionals, and not with children who have never been separated from their mothers, to determine your success"...
And that was his clandestine way of saying: "Don't do what I've done.
Go do something different and put people around you who are professionals at what they do, and then you can achieve great things." That's when I went from my dream of being an athlete or coach to doing something different...
Until my father passed away a few years ago, I talked to him almost every night on the way home from work.
And I would tell him that he never convinced me to stop training.
I'm still a coach.
I just don't do it on a sports court or a basketball court, but in the business world.
The American Dream Video Project showcases real stories that illuminate paths to opportunity.
Presented at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream (MCAAD), this series is part of the Center's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
MCAAD is Washington, DC's newest cultural institution, offering interactive exhibits and stories about achieving the American dream.
For more information, visit mcaad.org.
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