“My Dad Left Us…”- Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez Talks About His Inspiration When He Was a Child

Published 04/29/2022, 10:15 AM EDT

Success does not come easily to anyone. To reach the top, one needs to work hard consistently. However, apart from their hard work, sometimes, certain support from the family and friends also helps to achieve their goals. Talking about hard work and family support, Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez is probably the best example of this.

In today’s time, Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez is a global identity. Many people started following baseball because of him. Such is the aura of A-Rod. But the success he enjoys has not come easily to him.

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Way before he became a baseball superstar, A-Rod was raised and brought up in a middle-class family with a single parent. But his mother helped him become a successful person.

Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez considers his mother an inspiration

With a net worth of over $350 million, A-Rod is one of the most successful and bankable sports personalities in the world. Of course, it is all because of hard work and talent. But his mother also played a crucial role in his success. A-Rod’s father left him when he was just 10-year-old. Despite all her difficulties, his mother raised him to become a man.

Recently, in the latest Shark Tank video, Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez opened up about his mother. He called her a workhorse. He even recalled how his mother would work till late at night and still send him to school at seven in the morning.

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“My dad left us when I was about ten. And then I was raised by a single mother here in Miami. My mother was a workhorse. She would wake up at seven drop us off at school, go be a secretary and then go serve tables at night. It was quite an inspiration to watch her grind it out every day,” said A-Rod.

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Having played for over 20 years in Major League Baseball, A-Rod has ruled an era. Apart from sports, he is also a very successful businessperson.

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Abhishek Kumar is an MLB author at EssentiallySports. After completing his Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, Abhishek has been working in the media industry since two years. Before joining EssentiallySports, he previously worked at APN News as a sub-editor, where he has written articles on sports and politics.

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Simar Singh Wadhwa

“My Dad Left Us…”- Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez Talks About His Inspiration When He Was a Child

Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez considers his mother an inspiration

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