Jeff Foxworthy has become one of the most recognized and successful stars in comedy. His catchphrase, "You Might Be A Redneck" has become a beloved punchline.

Jeff has had huge success on the comedy stage, as an author, a television actor in his own show and a celebrity pitchman.

Foxworthy was a class clown during his youth. In his spare time, he listened tirelessly to the recordings of comics like Bob Newhart and Flip Wilson, veteran comedians who didn't use profanity in their acts. Foxworthy was also a competitive football player in high school, playing in an aggressive manner that led to frequent visits to the local emergency room, but his slight build kept him from continuing in the sport.

Foxworthy planned to follow in his father's footsteps by majoring in computer technology at Georgia Tech and working at IBM. Yet he discovered that he gained more enjoyment from making co-workers laugh than working with computers. He eventually quit his job to devote his life to being a comedian. With the support of his wife, Pamela Gregg Grethe — a former actress he had met during one of his shows — he went on the road, laying the groundwork for his later success.

At a club date in Detroit, Michigan, Foxworthy discovered his comedic voice. Next to the club was a bowling alley offering valet parking; he was struck by the irony and immediately went to his room and compiled a list of factors that would make a person a redneck. For example, you might be a redneck if: "You ever mowed your lawn and found a car" or "You stare at a can of orange juice because it says concentrate."

Alex Morgan is an American soccer player and Olympic gold medalist.  She's a forward for the Portland Thorns FC and for the United States women's national soccer team.  She was named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year and was a FIFA World Player of the Year finalist.   

She's Alex Morgan and here are her Top 10 Rules for Success.  Join my BELIEVE newsletter: http://www.evancarmichael.com/newslet... 1. Everyone has their talent 2. Take it day by day 3. Plan your day 4. You can't look back 5. Consistency is the key 6. Focus on what you do best 7. It's all about hard work 8. Have confidence in yourself 9. Make the people you love proud 10. Dream big

Rosario Isabel Dawson is an American actress, filmmaker, musician, graphic novelist, and political activist. Over the course of her two-decade-long career, she has emerged as one of the most versatile actresses working in the industry today. A New York native, Dawson began her career in the entertainment industry when she was a teenager. In 1995, she made her debut in the teen drama ‘Kids’. She followed it up with the short film ‘Girls’ Night Out’ and the sports drama ‘He Got Game’. In 1998, she starred in a Merchant Ivory film, titled ‘Side Streets’. Her breakthrough role came about a few years later when she was cast in the science fiction comedy ‘Men in Black II’. In the ensuing years, she has portrayed Naturelle Riviera in Spike Lee’s ‘25th Hour’, Queen Roxana in Oliver Stone’s ‘Alexander’, Gail in ‘Sin City’ series, Mimi Marquez in Chris Columbus’ ‘Rent’, and Rebecca "Becky" Scott in Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks II’. Dawson made her television debut in 2007 and currently portrays Claire Temple in several Marvel/Netflix TV shows.

John Legend’s story is not one of overnight success but savvy moves that gave him the opportunity to pursue his passion, including working a safe corporate job for years while hustling through countless rejections and working music on the side.

He always hoped to have a career in music but he knew he needed a more practical job to get by. While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, he sang in a college a cappella group and studied English and African-American literature. He graduated magna cum laude in 1999.

As he prepared for life after college, he watched many of his friends become bankers and consultants. He followed in their footsteps, taking a job at the prestigious Boston Consulting Group. “I had followed the path that the Penn graduate was supposed to take, but I didn’t fall in love,” Legend said during a 2014 commencement speech at his alma mater. “I couldn’t shake my passion for music.”

Once he nabbed a role at the prestigious consulting firm, Legend began plotting his transition to full-time musician. He spent his work days preparing powerpoint presentations and financial models and his work nights writing songs and performing at small gigs around New York and Philadelphia.

Legend made music his side hustle partly out of necessity: “I needed money,” he told Washington Post. “I lived in New York and had to pay my rent.”

Legend’s big break didn’t come easily or quickly. For years he said, “I always thought my moment was just around the corner.”

During this time he was rejected by all the major labels, sometimes more than once, Legend told UPenn students in 2014. “I played for all the giants of the business — Clive Davis, L.A. Reid, Jimmy Iovine, you name it. And all of them turned me down.”

Legend’s breakthrough took years of working on his craft and developing relationships. After college, Legend kept in close touch with his roommate DeVon Harris, who introduced him to his cousin, a producer from Chicago named Kanye West. “Our collaboration has been a huge part of my career, and it had a lot to do with me finally getting a major recording contract in 2004,” Legend said.

You could say that Rachael Ray is an accidental multi-media star. She readily admits to having stumbled upon her superstar status. "I never wanted to be on food television or daytime television," she confesses. "I never thought I'd author a cookbook. I just knew that I wanted to work in food, and the rest of it's sort of a combination of luck and very weird circumstances."

The Emmy-winning TV star almost inadvertently catapulted from hanging out in her mother's kitchen to hosting her own syndicated talk and lifestyle show, starring in three Food Network series, writing cookbooks based on her '30 Minute Meals' concept and launching a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray.

"I don't think there was any one moment in my life where I decided that food or cooking would necessarily be my job," she says. "Our mom always instilled in us that you can do anything the next person can do, so when the opportunities did arise, I thought, 'Those other people are cooking, and they're on TV, and they're human, so I suppose I can try it.'"

Ray says that her career endeavors were "just sort of a really organic thing for me ... I grew up in kitchens -- production kitchens -- and whenever we were home, that's where everybody was -- in the kitchen."

She was raised in Massachusetts and upstate New York, where her family owned and managed multiple restaurants. When she grew up, she moved to New York City, again working in what she knew -- food. One of her first jobs was at the candy counter at Macy's, and she eventually went on to manage the fresh foods departments. She worked in several restaurants and specialty food markets and moved back to upstate New York, where she got her big media break on local television in Albany, doing a '30-Minute Meal' segment once a week on the CBS affiliate.

From there, she started teaching classes, making radio and television appearances, and wrote a cookbook that landed her on the 'Today' show. That led to the Food Network, and the rest is history.

"I think it's really important to not be afraid of where you've come from or the other jobs you've had," she says. "It makes you sort of fearless moving forward because you're not scared about going back to where you were before, if that wasn't so bad ... so why not try something new?"

George Takei is best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek. He's an actor, social justice activist, social media mega-power, New York Times bestselling author, originated the role of Sam Kimura and Ojii-Chan in the Broadway musical Allegiance, and subject of To Be Takei, a documentary on his life and career.

Takei's acting career has spanned five decades, with more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television guest-starring roles to his credit.

Mike Huckabee is an American politician and Christian minister who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the United States Republican presidential primaries in both 2008 and 2016.

Beginning in 2008, Huckabee hosted the Fox News Channel talk show Huckabee, ending the show in January 2015 in order to explore a potential bid for the presidency

What does it take to become a Hall Of Famer? Practice and hard work, were you hoping it was just luck? Emmitt Smith is also one of only two non-kickers in NFL history to score more than 1,000 career points. Emmitt Smith s a former college and professional American football running back who became the National Football League's (NFL) all-time leading rusher during his fifteen seasons in the league during the 1990s and 2000s.

Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith told USA TODAY Sports that he wants to see more consistency in the application of the NFL's concussion protocol.

To be a network news person means you've arrived. Al Roker has arrived and then some. Famous for telling us the weather in our "Neck Of The Woods", Al has become one of the most successful television personalities of our day. He's been very transparent about his weight loss. He has been an inspiration to thousands.

Many know the story of Dolly Parton. She is the ultimate rags to riches success story. She is full of life and it's contagious. Dolly shared a little bit of what it's like to be someone that is recognized worldwide for her big hair :)

We can all learn a lot from her never give up attitude and her desire to help as many others along the way.