How To Write An Essay On How Football Changed My Life

I have been playing basketball ever since I can remember. My family has always been very athletic. My siblings played basketball as well as my parents. My grandma told me a story about how I used to shoot a little basketball into a 10 foot hoop and I would make it. I play in the point guard position. I work very hard at what I do so that makes me advance in my skill for the sport. When I really started to realize I had a passion for it was in 6th grade. We had a lot of new people therefore our team didn't blend great. But even with my team being the way it was I still put everything that I had into it. Two things at the end of the season happened to me that made me realized that if I worked at it I could do great things. One parent on the

My entire life, I have lived and breathed basketball. When I was only three days old, I was being passed around in the stands of a basketball game while my parents coached my older sister. In first grade, I was begging my parents to let me play. I couldn’t, however, because in my town kids don’t start playing basketball until the third grade. They let me join an Upward basketball league that was near my area, but Upward wasn’t competitive enough for me. So the next year, I went a couple towns over to join their city league so I could play. From then on, basketball was my passion.

Just as it’s important to learn how to lead others, it’s also incredibly important that players learn how to be lead by others. Being a follower gave me a chance to experience outside of my box. When I initiated my soccer career, my life as a follower had begun.

I did a bunch of sports and I liked doing sports and going to practices but after doing things for 8 years it gets kinda boring and you lose interest in something you don’t love. I just liked sports and people said I was good at them but it just wasn’t what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I had a bunch of coach’s ruin my liking of sports so let me tell you the full story.

When I was three years old, I began playing a sport that would change my life forever. Throughout my life I have tried just about every sport available to me. The one that stuck with me and that I continued to play every year was soccer. It was the love of my life. I loved everything about it from the sweet smell of the fresh cut grass to the most exhilarating feeling of scoring a goal.

As a child, I grew up playing travel soccer, and it was what my life revolved around. My weekdays were filled with practices, my weekends filled with tournaments. Soccer was all I knew and all I wanted to do. I had dreams of making my high school varsity team, and even one day playing when I got to college. This all changed during one weekend tournament. My team and I were in the first half of the first game that weekend when I was injured and carried off the field. From that point, I never stepped foot into a soccer game again.

would consider myself to be an athletic person, I always have been. I have been played many sports throughout my life beginning all the way back to before kindergarten. They have been a huge part of my life and I have learned so much. These games have influenced my life in many ways and I am grateful for all the opportunities I have been given. I have played many sports including soccer, volleyball, and basketball.

American Football: the modern day Spartan agōgē. As early as the 6th century BCE Sparta mandated military training for all males ages 7 and up. Renowned throughout history as the ultimate rite of passage for male youth, the Sparta agōgē can be found alive and well today in the form of American Football. I know because I lived it, and in Texas no less.

Before: Exemplary grades. 3.82 GPA actually. Starting varsity football player, though I was only a sophomore. A beautiful girlfriend of two years. Confidence. Social life. Motivation.

In my life I have always been a procrastinator and never really pushed myself to do the best I can. In school, soccer and my job as a bagger I never really took value in what I did. All I did was get the job done whether that meant i put 100% in it. Throughout my whole life i have played soccer but never put in the effort outside of the league to get better. Once I got to highschool I really started to love the game and began to go home everyday and practice. During my junior year I started to see a big improvement in my touch and shooting. Coming to my senior year all my friends that had played with me my whole life had quit because they didn’t want to play on varsity. I personally was on the edge too and they were trying to talk me out of it. I really wanted to play but at the same time i'm lazy and varsity is a lot more effort and commitment. Not only would it be work on the field but it would take time away from my homework and job.

Ever since I was little, I have always appreciated what I had in my life. When I was four years old, my dad passed away. I only have little, short memories, but I can still remember him. It’s like I’m missing half of the pieces to a puzzle. Losing him has made me realize how fortunate I am to have a family. Every day, I work as hard as I can and try to be the best person I can be, to make him proud.

Football helped me find myself. My whole life I never knew who I truly was. I could never pinpoint if my likes, dislikes, opinions, or decisions were truly being chosen by my own mind, or if they had been solely influenced by someone else's. It felt as if my personality was created from a mixture of others, and it made me feel ungenuine, like a follower. Middle school was coming to an end and I was still absent minded of my true identity. Ironically enough though, before moving on to high school one of my closest friends, Juan, influenced me to make a life changing decision; joining the high school football team. It took some persuasion from him, but as always, I gave in and agreed to practice with the team. The first day of practice came quick and as Juan and I approached

Football was the first sport I played in high school. I played in the position of right guard and my job was to protect the quarterback or anyone else traveling with the ball from the opponent. Playing football impacted my life. I was out of shape, and overweight. While attending football practice, I learn to work with others. All of my teammates and I dedicated time after school to practice with the couch and Saturdays by ourselves, so that we could stand out when facing our opponents. Throughout the season, not only was I able to lose the extra weight that I carried, I also gained confidence to try other sports and improved my physical and mental performance and

In football, a quarterback is said to be a product of the athletes around him. The people in my life and my environment has shaped me in similar manners. The close caring support from my friends and family have made my life experiences enjoyable and memorable, and these same experiences have taught me how to be a supportive and caring person for somebody else.

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.