Mackie Shilstone is 5'8" and weighs only 137 pounds, but he trains some of the largest professional athletes in the countryfor example, pro basketball player Ralph Sampson, St. Louis shortstop Ozzie Smith, Will Clark of the Giants, Billy Hobbley of the Harlem Globetrotters.  Mackie is not content just to train athletes physically. He wants to help change their lifestyles and ways of thinking as well. "I tell my athletes that they do have control over what their attitude will be about life. Their positive attitude and faith in God makes a difference." 

"I have never forgotten the message on the medallion I received from (television pastor) Dr. (Robert) Schuller," he says, "which had this inscription: When faced with a mountain, I will not quit!  I will keep on striving until I climb over, …