To choose something elite is, more often than not, to choose being a little fish in a big pond, he says, since only a select few will shine among the best. He believes people are generally better ...

Try and remember what it was like for you before starting secondary school – the nerves, the fear and the sense of going from being a big fish in a small pond to a little fish in a big pond.

Asked how he felt about that, Smith simply said: “I’m just a small fish in a big pond.” Ed Kracz has been covering the Eagles full-time for over a decade and has written about Philadelphia ...