"If Winning Isn't Everything, Then Why do They Keep Score?" For as long as I can remember, I've played sports. The main reasons I loved playing sports is because they kept me occupied, I built lifelong relationships, and I stayed active all year long. Being in sports has taught me discipline, responsibility, and dedication. What I love the most about playing sports, more than anything, is the competition.
Everyone knows that many professional athletes are paid very, very well. However, many of these athletes also routinely give of their money and time to charitable causes. Volunteering for an important cause is a role-model quality that many athletes possess and that people should strive to emulate. Athletes are good role models because they are symbols of success. Most athletes are not born with a silver spoon in their mouth they work hard for the title there given so they can become successful in the near future.
He has high expectations from his players rather it is athletically, academically and personality. He wants to know what his players are doing all the time and wants them to be leaders on and off the field even putting them through leadership classes at the college. He believes in his coaches and his players. He micro-manages but with a meaningful purpose and that is success. He wants his whole program to be successful off and on the field and to prepare his players for life after football and he has a plan for all of
Champions work for there ability to be an athlete and they give great effort no matter what to achieve being the best. Someone that has athleticism but does not give forth there best effort at all times may as well be any other person on a team. Chandler
The Army Crew Team: 1) Why does the Varsity team lose to the JV team? The team members of the JV team started their practice with the mindset of “Nothing to lose”. This relieved them from the burden of carrying the winning responsibility in their minds throughout the race. The JV team members trusted their team members very much when compared to their varsity counterparts. The basic atmosphere in the varsity crew was that, the members were critical of each other rather than focusing on the main goal of the race, winning.
As soon as those racing shoes come on, they are in their own game of dedication and heart to get them what they want. Although this family focuses on themselves before the rest of their family, one can always see a glimpse of this family helping and pushing each other to do their absolute best when they may want to quite. Dedication needs more than just a want, a desire for something. Dedication is saying that you want the football team to take first place and then doing everything that you can do to motivate the players to train hard so that they could yank the gold out from under another team. Not allowing your teammates to give up at any hint of defeat or thought of failure.
They push themselves to every extreme to be the best at what they do. They have to if they want to keep playing. There is a constant pressure that athletes endure with keeping their performances up and competition level at their highest. Since their source of income depends on performance, it is no surprise that players take advantage of the benefits of performance enhancing drugs. (The Sports Industry’s war on Athletes By: Peter S. Finley and Laura L. Finley) There are also younger faster kids moving up the ranks that want to unseat them and take over.
Formal education, high IQ or talent don’t automatically cause an early beginner to make it to the top. In most cases, world renowned experts can only do wellin limited areas. However, in their areas of expertise, they perform in a way nobody else can do. Most well-known successful individuals such as Olympic athletes, basketball players and celebrities are successful for two reasons: First, they focused all their time developing skills in an area where they are greatest. Second, they focused on an area where they had passion and love.
I am very active, very into sports and in some cases I do have that thinking I’m the best attitude but I call it confidence. Confidence is what makes me take a chance and try new things, the jocks like to show off their skills and be the center of attention, and that is what I love to do. It might sound conceded and that is how outside people may see us but jocks do have inside feelings and aren’t just stuck up and stupid. Some people are just born with an athletic ability, some more than others, but in my opinion that does not give others the right to discriminate against sporty people. One could say I have been a jock ever since I was 5 when I started playing softball but I am proud to say I am and I will continue to be.
In the ring, you need every edge you can get. Guardian’s health and happiness has been the most vital factor all these years. I have had to pay studious attention to, how hard he can pushed and when not to push him. Similar to human athletes, they get fatigued, and they can only do so much per training session. As my teammate, I want him to be compliant and enthusiastic about his job.