How Football Affected My Life

Sports have been a huge part of my life ever since I was about five years old. It has impacted my life so much. The biggest challenge that I faced was with my injuries during basketball and soccer season. I recently had to quit soccer and basketball, which was difficult for me.

Lush, green grass began to massage my bare feet. Sunshine beamed off the clean, white goal posts. With my cleats in my hands, ball in my bag, and my freshly washed shirt, only one thing came to mind: soccer. The sport I love and have devoted the past three years was evolving. Many of my friends were shifting from recreational to club soccer. After three years of recreational soccer, I decided to take my game to the next level and tryout for club soccer. Eager to showcase my skills, I stood on the field bearing confidence. Before tryouts began, my thoughts solely consisted of playing club soccer with my friends. I thought little about tryout preparation, because I didn’t know what to expect. No one gave me information about how to perform well

I believe that I am a product of the environment that I have been raised in. The world that I live in has allowed me to become much more than a unique DNA sequence. I have been fortunate enough to have been blessed with a privileged life. My parents are happily married, have steady and well paying jobs, and love my sister and me immensely. Growing up, I never had to worry about money, whether that be for new clothes or to go on a trip with my church, or if we were going to be able to have a decent meal. I am truly blessed for that and I hope one day I will be able to provide for my future kids in the same way, and I feel the best way to achieve that is through a higher education. The one thing that has been always expected of me is to get

There has been many important events that have occurred since I have been born but there is one in particular that has sparked a light in me that has changed the way i have looked at things. It happened when I was playing with the Sacramento FC and everything was going well until the middle of the season. When we got to the middle of the season things started to look shady. I wasn't getting playing time and that really opened my eyes to reality. Soccer was not the only thing that I needed to do in order to have a good life. I needed to start focusing on my dreams and different routes to success other then just soccer. It really showed what I need to do in order to survive in the real world. If it was not for my family's support through this

From one week to another I started feeling so much pain in my back I honestly did not know what it was I tended not to pay attention to it that whole week. Until at the end of the week it got to a point where I couldn't move nor stretch that was when I realized my high school soccer career would end. I played soccer as a freshman and as a sophomore I always tried my best I was ready for soccer this time and I had just gotten back from a Europe trip which made me learn new things about soccer. My goal for high school was to be able to play all four years since I had already made the team freshman year.

When I was six years old I moved from Colorado to New Mexico. At the end of my junior year of high school I found out that I was moving back to Colorado. I was full of emotions that made me hate the world. I had thought of every possibility on how to stay in nm and finish high school. At the time I was talking to a girl that I really liked and had a lot of very close friends. I wasn’t the kind of kid to go out and do things with people but during the second half of my junior year I made some friends that I started to do things with. It was as if I had finally made all my friends and found people who I wanted to be around but it was all being taken away from me. One of my brothers still lived in nm and my plan was to stay in nm with him and

I have known it for fifteen years. For fifteen years I have lived, breathed, and marveled at it. I am only eighteen years old meaning it has taken up almost all of my life. I know nothing else but this, and it is soccer. Soccer has been my lifestyle ever since I was able to walk and it has been what keeps me going and keeps me motivated in life. Soccer has made me who I am today and has taught me almost everything I have ever needed to know.

If I would have to say the most impact on my life would be football throughout my life, There was lots of things I’ve experience on and off the field and some more over time when I had started to play, when I had good season, when I had bad season. It’s funny to think that I wanted to quit the game that I loved the most on my first day out on practice.

Last fall, I participated in a four-week program called TOPS soccer where I taught special needs children in my community how to play the sport I love. As I look back on the experience, I realize that it has completely changed my outlook on life and really opened up my eyes. I hope to share the valuable life lessons I learned through this experience with others.

I live for those fall Friday nights to get out that orange #14 jersey and run my routes. My brothers all run along the field with me, just like I did with them as a child. It doesn’t matter if I am making winning touchdowns or if I am just gaining yards, they are in the crowd cheering me on. Football has brought a lot of good times between the four of us. Even though, two are married and one is in college, whenever we get together at any point in life, we make it a game day between all of us. I believe it has brought a bond like no other. We all have our places on the field, or should I say in the yard and we play just like we are all under the Friday night

One bright sunny morning I done something that I thought I couldn't ever do. That morning changed my life in a good way. I thought I couldn't ever do what I did that day.

“In high school, you are going to make mistakes, but more importantly, you will learn from mistakes,” my uncle once told me. This quote means that making mistakes isn’t a bad thing. High school has matured me mentally because I joined football.

Many people do not consider athletics as anything more than an outlet for energy or a social activity, but from my personal experience of how sports have impacted my life I can not help but disagree. As a diver, I feel there is no better piece of me to share than the identity I have taken on from the sport. What started as a summer activity to stay in shape, diving has changed the course of life forever and made me the person I am today.

Sports has affected my life so much, and it has helped me from making bad choices and from being bored. The first and favorite sport is golf. Golf is also the first sport i ever learned. Golf is also very enjoyable for me. My whole family even plays it.

Since I was a child, I always dreamed of being a soccer player and competing against the best players in the world. I used to practice almost every day, eating healthy getting better day by day. I always had feelings that one day, I would be a professional a soccer player and participating in world famous events. I had a lot of confident's in myself, and I know this was because of my family always encouraged me to follow my dream and advising me to never give up no matter what happens. I always felt special to my family; they supported me and never made me feel discourage. I was fortunate to have my family in my side day by day. I had vision in myself; since I was kid, I would be reaching my goal and nothing would be able to stop me from accomplishing