Breaking Barriers winner’s story will inspire you

When Jesse Quist saw the movie “42,” depicting Jackie Robinson’s courageous battle to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, the scene that stood out to him the most was that in which Dodgers owner Branch Rickey (played by Harrison Ford) tells Robinson (played by Chadwick Boseman) that he needs a player “who’s got the guts not to fight back,” but instead withstand the hatred and abuse heaped upon him, showing “the guts to turn the other cheek.”