How Sport Has Impacted My Life

Growing up in Southern California was a blessing. Being able to walk outside every single day grab a basketball, football, or even a bat a glove was one of the best things about growing up playing sports. There is not a time in my life that I can remember when I wasn’t practicing for a sport that I was currently participating in. Sports has always been a huge part of my family, my father grew up playing baseball, my mother playing softball, and my uncle actually played for the New York Yankees for a brief time back in the 1960’s, so I guess you could say that I grew up in a baseball family. My parents had always raised me with the good moral values that are still instilled in me today, and I personally feel that it came from having my father and mother as coaches growing up helping guide me to where I am now. There are many people who have very strong opinions against athletes and how athletes act, I feel that sports has helped me develop as a person and given me something to always work towards.

Throughout my life, sports have played a big part in it. Playing soccer since I was little and basketball since I was in 4th grade. It’s helped me be a better person and stay out of trouble. I wouldn’t be who I am today if sports weren’t in my life. Traits have come to me through sports, that have made me today are being a teammate, flexible with new things, reliable, and passionate with what I do.

I never liked playing with dolls, painting nails, pretending I was a teacher or even acting like I was baking with fake food. All that girly stuff sounded boring to me, so the one thing that kept me busy everyday was going outside and playing whatever sport was on for that day with all my neighborhood friends. We played everything from kickball to football in the streets. Ever since I was a little child, playing sports was my passion. In my free time I played every sport you can think of, but sports that I actually was on a team for was baseball, hockey, soccer, and I ran track. Being an athlete is how people knew me, I guess you could say I was and still am a tomboy. Being involved in a sport ever since I was four years old, has really taught me a lot about not just playing the sports itself, but at life as a whole. Being apart of a team, can teach someone many skills, and life lessons. Because there are uncountable reasons why one should be involved in a sport, the main skills, and lessons include learning how to work together, and developing communication, and organizing skills. Additionally, one could develop a good work ethic, and learn how to control body language/temper.

While I was younger, me and my family always did sports. I played soccer, little league baseball, basketball, softball, volleyball, and track starting this year. All of these sports made me happy and joyful. The sports I play, reveal so much about me and the character people can learn from me. I am hardworking, I won't give up on anything through any circumstance. Through a hard practice or game, I will work hard till the end. I am athletic, I

As a kid i’ve been involved with at least one sport. Growing up i only played baseball, but about 2 years of just baseball I decided to expand my horizon of sports. I joined football and soccer to try the experience of playing those sports. Soccer wasn't really my thing so after a year of playing that I quit. Growing up till 7th grade i only played baseball and football. When the season came for basketball i decided to tryout and ended up making the team. I quit football 8th grade to focus more on grades. Currently I play baseball and basketball. Growing I believe playing all these helped me to become the person I became mentally and physically. I made friends who helped me to make the right decisions and inspired to me to do these sports.

I grew up in a community where I took part in lots of community activities including sporting activities such as soccer. If I had to be successful, I had to work hard and remain focused; a lesson that I have learned through soccer and that I must admit has helped shape my mentality and attitude towards life. Soccer has been my favorite sports for many years. It is one sport that provides lessons that are important in life. My great passion for soccer started during my elementary school times till today.

Over the years, I have been involved in many activities from sports to being a teacher for English as a second language. Sports have been the things that have meant the most to me. Competing in both volleyball and softball have not only taught me the sport but also how to be a better person. Playing Sports has made me a very competitive person, which helps in the sports world and in the school world. I am always competing with myself to do better. Always pushing myself to do my absolute best. Another life lesson that playing sports has taught me is that you have to work hard in everything you do, nothing in life comes easy. My parents have always told me to work hard and do everything to the best of my ability and sports has really made me

Through my involvement in sports, I have grown a great deal as an individual. I joined my school’s Track and Field Team via an E-mail. For the beginning of my freshman season, I was incredibly shy and received. I probably wrote more words in that E-mail than I said to my coach for the first month of that season. Before Track and Cross, I was not an athlete, and I had never run more than a mile a day in my life. Obviously, I did not go from a couch potato to a track star overnight. I started Track as the slowest girl on the distance team and for the majority of meets that season, I was embarrassed about how slow I was. It was not until nearly the end of the season that I realized that I had nothing to be embarrassed about. Even though I was not fast, no one could deny that I was working my hardest and giving every day whether it was a workout or a race, everything that I had to give. I am not sure when exactly it happened, but soon after, I was no longer the slowest girl on my team. At the Banquet to celebrate the end of the

Sports are important to a lot of people, but for me they have been what my life revolves around. Ever since I was young I have been very active. My father is a coach so I learned from a young age what it means to be part of a team and driven to win.

My personal experience is my love of sports and playing sports from a young age. And this inspires me to give all the effort I can all the time that I can. When I do or participate in sports they inspire me to do things that I can’t normally do or things that I would not normally do. My personal experience also has shaped my life in the way that I have more friends than I did before sports. And sports have shaped my life in the way that I am going down a better path because of the sports I do and how I do them.

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Fùtbol or soccer, it doesn’t matter the way you say it, although what it has done for us as humans is very significant. For me soccer is everything I play it, watch it, and talk about it, the sport has led my life since I first gained interest towards it in grade four. There must be a reason why it the most watched sport in the world, it brings everyone in the world together no matter what race, nationality, or gender. Ever since grade six I have been trying to encourage soccer into my projects for school, I haven’t had a chance of properly incorporating my true passion.

When it comes to sports there are a lot of moments that have impacted me to be the person that I am today. When I was younger I was always trying to be active regardless of the activity I just wanted to be outside and do something. A lot of people found that odd since back then I was not the best person when it comes to health. Roughly around the time I was in middle school to the early year’s high school I was starting to have some health problems. The doctors told me that I was that if I continued on this path I would run the risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure and other health related problems. I also already had a fatty liver, but it was not that advanced. At that moment everything changed, not only did I begin to eat a lot

My life has always consisted of sports, whether it was baseball, basketball, snowmobiling or golf. Growing up I was always injured from sports, I don’t believe I have ever finished a sport without being hurt. From these injuries I have learned how to rehab almost any part of my body, arm, wrist, ankle, hamstring, quadriceps, knee, fingers and shoulders. I grew fond of my school’s personal trainer and physical therapist; I knew I wanted to help people rehab. It got to the point in high school that I looked forward to my rehab sessions because I liked the atmosphere of the therapy clinic and wanted to see what injuries the other patients had. It is easy to say that injuries and rehab were part of my day to day life from a young age. I knew I

Sports have always been the go to activity in my life, whether it is playing, watching, or reading. I participated in a few sports but will play any sport for fun. I thrive to watch sports and keep up with the NFL, NBA, MLB, and all the college sports. My family has enjoyed sports forever and the love has been handed down from generation to generation. Issues in sports have always been around and will continue to be around for ages.