Nick the Kick Lowery to Make Keynote
| Publication year | 2010 |
| Pages | 13 |
By Susan McKaskle, KBA communications director
Naked and Alone with 80,000people
Like a Hall of Fame kicker in a rowdy, rocking 80,000 seat NFL stadium during a windy playoff game on national television, we all wait on our own sidelines for our moments of truth — sometimes, truly alone, nakedly exposed and vulnerable for our defining moments of destiny. We all know we can bring all the focus we need to whatever we have passion for: use that passion to sharpen your focus to a lazer. If we are ready, and if we are properly focused, we can achieve whatever we prepare ourselves for, no matter how isolating and phenomically intense that moment may be. All outstanding achievers work through enormous adversity. The key distinction is FOCUS: the kicker in all of us must harness his or her passion with focus for those white-hot, crucial moments. Believe in your purpose, believe your cause is just, for when your passion is great, and your focus is unshakably on its target, you can achieve against all odds.
Nick Lowery, Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame
The name Dominic Gerald Lowery may not be familiar, but if you are a football fan, you will probably recognize the name, "Nick the Kick" Lowery. Lowery's perseverance and self-realization took him to success on the gridiron and in his career after those riotous Sundays.
Prior to his football success leading him to become a recordsetter and a member of the Kansas. City Chief's Hall of fame, he was cut by eight NFL teams, 11 times. He did not let those cuts stop him. He persevered and enjoyed success.
Lowery received the NFL Players Association's most prestigious humanitarian award, The Byron "Whizzer” White Award, in 1993. White was an outstanding player in his three seasons. After World War II, he attended Yale Law School and was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
As a young boy, Lowery grew to admire his next door neighbor, Justice White. Coincidentally Lowery, grew up in a neighborhood with a number of other U.S. Supreme Court justices as neighbors. In fact, Justice Scalia's son delivered the Lowery's newspaper.
Lowery carried his persistence and self-realization from the NFL to earning his Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the only person to work for both Presidents George H.W. Bush and...
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