As a football coach I believe that one of my main ideals will be the utmost importance placed on success and winning. I cannot agree at all with the direction that young participation sports are going we their viewpoint on winning. I do not feel that a child should be brought up to believe that he will be rewarded solely for attempting a challenge. This kind of backwards philosophy will bring many problems in the near future because we are telling the children that life is about giving the effort, not about actually succeeding. This is not the case in any kind of professional field today because no one really cares how hard you try unless you produce results and overcome the challenges you are faced with.
I love the thrill of ever game, every week, every season making an impact and actually having meaning and purpose. Utah, Boise State, and all of you other mid major conferences quit whining and man up. The way you do that is strengthen your schedule and stop playing an unimportant season. I have always loved the Cinderella story, but not to the point of jeopardizing the character of the college football nation. Until there is a playoff structure, the anticipation of the top 25 every year will keep me running wild with emotions of anger and thrills.
If there is no unification, no sense of selflessness, there can be no advancement or improvement. The most evident example of how this is true is in athletics. When a team comes together at the beginning of their respective season, they all agree to unify themselves and set their eyes on one goal, one championship, and one team. They unify themselves from the start to assure each other of their commitment to the goal. When game time comes, they all come together as one and each player does his own assignment, own job in order to help the team be successful.
From Roosevelt’s metaphors in the letter to Roosevelt’s son, Ted, encouraging Ted to play football but to be sure not to allow football to destroy Ted’s character, to McMurty’s anecdotes of how success in professional football requires the destruction of one’s character, and finally to Willard’s analogy of learning to ride a bicycle to the increase in the freedom of women, all claim character is the most important trait a person can possess. In Roosevelt’s letter to his son, Ted, President Roosevelt advises Ted to proceed with caution when participating in athletics such as football. Roosevelt states, “athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant and a mighty bad master” as he argues character is the most important quality of a person, not intelligence or athleticism. Roosevelt alludes not only to Pliny’s letter to Trajan, where Pliny advises Trajan to continue absorbing the Greeks in sports to distract them from what is really important, such as building a proficient army, but also to the lack of efficiency of the British officers in the Boer War due to their ridiculous love of sports to validate his advice to his son, sports, when focused on too much, can diminish character and cause one to prioritize athletics above more important things, such as schoolwork. However, Roosevelt claims participating in athletics in moderation, like all other things when done
Though my task seemed rather elementary, it was much more complicated than that. Each man that was on the field for defense had his own duty, his own job to fulfill, and if one single man failed to achieve his goal, then the whole defense would crumble. This teaches one to be tough and to trust in others as you trust in yourself, because the key to success is teamwork, and the key to teamwork is building a relationship with each and every man on that field that is on your side. Through this hardened comradery between me and the rest of the men on my team, we fought through a hard season to make it to the playoffs, and achieve what I always dreamed of ever since I joined football. My hard work also paid off when I was awarded most improved player of the year!
AP Literature 1 September 2013 The Personal Statement (Prompt 2) Dedication Dedication is a quality that is severely important to me; it drives me to be the best person I can be. Whether it’s in school, sports, or other activities. I have been in stages of my life where I have wanted to just quit; I wanted to just give up, but I have pushed through those obstacles by committing hard work and dedication. Dedication to me is when you have an absolute love for something, and you do whatever it takes to be the best you can be at it, whether its in academics, sports, music, or any ability you wish to get better at, or to be the best you can be. You can set your goals, but without dedication you
Teaching them the basics of being a man while at the same time teaching them the importance of team work and perseverance through whatever life throws at you. These life lessons usually take most a long time to learn. Football isn’t everything, and there is more to life, but football does help to create a man that can contribute something more to society than just being a football player. Football helped to turn these boys into men, by putting them into situations that most, if not properly prepared would just crumble and fail. Yet football taught them how to pull through and prevail over the situation at
20TH Century U.S. History U.S. leaders throughout history have always tried to do the right thing in my opinion. I would have to give them a grade of a B+. I give them this grade because they have in the most part tried to help everyone they can. But in reality you cannot help everyone. We as a nation, I believe have always tried to come to the aide of anyone we can.
I now look at the stress I have had in my past and can see how some of that stress has given me the motivation to succeed and conquer the tasks, which has caused an abundance of happiness and pride once I actually accomplish success and beat the stress. I can relate all this information back to times during my career playing football, where I was told often by coaches and others that I would not ever start or play or have a chance to get any further than high school , because I was very undersized, but I turned all that stress from them telling me that and used it as motivation to work harder, practice ore, and prove all of them wrong. I now can proudly say I succeeded and received a full academic and athletic scholarship to the University of Alabama and proved to all of them that I could make it and that stress they caused me never discouraged me from reaching my
First find out all of the details of what happened, the school's policy, and get the advice of your athletic director before making a decision and think also what long-term impact of your decision. Discipline also means doing the right thing and doing everything for the better of the team. In practice, this means doing every drill the right way, every time. Some coaches are "go" coaches and like the fast-break, full-court press, gambling, trapping, and like the game to be a track meet. This style of play is ideal for a team with lots of quick, allowing for lots of substituting.