Michael is a man who as shown the will to overcome the hardest things in his life. "Michael Oher’s early years suggested little more to hope for, at the very most, than a life of impoverished anonymity, but more likely a short, sad life punctuated by drugs, violent crime and prison sentences. Yet Michael graduated from college..." (by Michael Oher) He might of thought of giving up , but he never did and now he has a career he rally loves and makes a lot of money