The Difficulties Of Lou Holtz

“If I’m going to be on the team.” “So you go to work late”, Lucy said” (Green, p.131). Ty had a previous commitment to the job at his Uncle's cleaning business but since this interferes with his ability to practice, he realizes that he will have to sacrifice one or the other. Ty demonstrated that he really could be on the team by sacrificing his work commitments in order to fulfill his passion-football. When Ty is finally allowed to join the team, he is so thrilled for his opportunity even if it means that he has to work harder, study the plays and practice more on his own.

The book, “Training Camp” by Jon Gordon is an inspirational story filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team. The story follows a little boy named Martin Jones who was a undrafted rookie trying to make it into the NFL.. He spent his whole life proving many critics that a guy with a big heart but is small can succeed against all the odds.After Martin sprained his ankle during preseason, he thought that he lost his dream., but then he meets a very special coach. The coach was a great mentor, he shared eleven lessons about life that kept his dream alive. This help him a lot and even made him to be one of the best of the best.

Louis went from some random kid to being the greatest, humble person today. Laura Hillenbrand executed this perfectly through her literature. During one of Louis distance runs, Laura writes, “A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie though: Let go” . Being a soccer player, this touched me deeply because there is a lot of pain in being a soccer player, but scoring that goal for your team is my “lifetime of glory” that I strive for. Another stunning example is when Louis said, “I just thought I was empty and now i'm being filled.. And I just wanted to keep being filled”. When I started soccer I had the same feeling that Louis did when he said this. Soccer filled something inside of me I can't really explain to this day, but it has grown to a deep passion of mine that I will take with me to my death bed. Not only was her wise words that inspired me, but it was the incredible detail she gives sight into with the current world stance of that time

For a lot of kids, it’s not until it’s all said and done, and they look back on it several years later, that they realize the difference the sport made in their lives. They are proud of playing the game. Have you ever met anybody who accomplished playing four years of high school football, and at the end of that run said, ‘Man, I wish I wouldn’t have played’? It doesn’t get said. Football players aren’t perfect. Nobody is. But millions of former players, one by one, can recount the life-altering principles they learned from football. They know the value of football is the values in football.That’s why high school football – and particularly high school coaches – play such a vital role in our society. Our football coaches are on the front lines of the battle for the hearts and minds of the boys in our society.

Without his family’s financial sacrifice (Moore, 95-96), Wes would not have been able to attend Valley Forge, and in turn, would not have been able to meet the people that would later influence his life. Moore’s college advisor had given him the opportunity to meet Paul White, the assistant director of admissions at John Hopkins University. After meeting the man, Wes “spent much of lunch telling him my story, and he spent the remaining time selling me on Hopkins” (Moore, 160). Weeks later, Wes receives a letter confirming his acceptance into John Hopkins University as well as a scholarship. “While reading the letter, I thought about Paul White.

In third grade I began my first official Sheridan sports team. I was now officially making my way to becoming a general; before that I didn’t have any idea of what being a “general” meant. At the time I was attending Thornville elementary and the majority of my friends at my school were just as pumped as I, for our first practice on the field beside the infamous Sheridan Middle school. The first few weeks of practice taught me nothing I wanted was going to be easily attainable, these coaches expected more out of me than I had ever been accustomed to. The bar they set for us each day pushed us to new heights we had only dreamed of.

Luis thought he wasn’t wanted in school, and he didn’t want to get involved in school no matter how many schools he went to. All he really needed was a mentor to understand him and help get through his struggle. “.. she offered quips and comments about me not attending school” (Luis 133)

Only four months, after leaving St. Mary’s school, he was a major league player making $1,800, which was more money than he ever dreamed existed. Having all this money, he could do things that had been out of his realm of possibilities, such as eating as much as he wanted. All his life up to this point, he had survived on rations of oatmeal, sandwiches, and soup; and the reality that he could go to a restraint and buy whatever he wanted was something new and exciting, but would eventually cause a lot of physical problems as he later struggled with weight and digestive problems. It was at a local coffee shop, where he ate breakfast every morning that he met and began dating a girl named Helen Woodford. They were married on October 17, 1914 in St. Paul’s Catholic Church in a little town west of Baltimore.

The tryouts for the newly reconstituted Under Fifteen Fugees were under way Luma gathered the newcomers and took row, she set up a scrimmage to assess the newcomers skilled and took notes to near their names to decide a posit of the players. After scrimmaging was over Luma had a talk with the boys about how she felt that if the team played against their opponents, they would most likely lose, Luma told them they were going against teams that played for five years team with experience, however the boy didn’t care they knew they could win and wouldn’t give up. With the new Under Fifteen team reconstituted and the season back on, the boys were only seven days away from their first game. In hopes of preparing the Under Fifteen Fugees Luma set a scrimmage between the Under Fifteens and the Under Seventeens. Fornatee a veteran of the Under Fifteens decided not to show up for the tryouts and two of the team’s practices, he felt as if he had a

The Richard Thompson Stadium started to get packed while we warmed up. Our team consisted mainly of sophomores and juniors, if there were more than 5 freshmen I would be exaggerating. I was putting on my cleats to start moving the ball and Vicente, one of the freshman said, “I wish Coach Nunez would let me play today.” “You might get some minutes depending on how the game goes,” I replied. Then, one of the juniors started laughing and told us, “look kidos, there are no chances of you kicking a ball tonight!” We did not pay much attention to him and kept on getting ready just in case. Coach Nunez was talking to the varsity Coach and suddenly he shouted, “Rojas! Come here.” I thought he was going to ask me a favor or tell me to go get something from the locker. “Rojas, I need you to be a wall in the midfield. No te quiero ver parado. Tell Kevin [one of

These boys are taught the all too known, “no pain, no gain” philosophy, but to a new extreme. Bissinger tells the story of a boy who broke his arm during a game and set his arm by himself, rather than sit out. “By the time the arm had swelled up considerably, to the point that the forearm pads he wore had to be cut off, and unwillingly he went to the hospital” (Bissinger 43). Players are bred with the obsession of completing the task, no matter what is thrown at them.

Sports are a significant part of society and spectators enjoy particular events regardless of the type. However, there are many players who develop special working and social relationships with whom they are participating regardless of the type of sport. The relationship and how people interact with one another can be the determination of how successful a team can be. The particular film based on a true story that I chose is titled When the Game Stands Tall. This film consists of a high performing football team of De La Salle High School in the state of California. Jim Caviezel portrays the head coach (Bob Ladouceur) as a man with such vision and passion that goes beyond the fundamental principles of coaching the game of football. The football team had won 151 games without being defeated which is the highest winning record a team has had in the game of football. The film shows the internal struggles of the players in their lives as people, and how they perform on the field. It also shows the external tragic difficulties that they face while they attend and play for De Le Salle High School. In the movie, the head coach helps the students/players by not only coaching them but also showing them how to live a flourishing life by committing to endure difficult life situations and the way to overcome them. He helps teach the principles of brotherhood and companionship with the team that they build. In the movie, the head coach and the staff had taught the players

After graduating from high school Miller, applied to both Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Unfortunately, neither of them accepted Miller due to his poor performance in high school. In the same year he applied one more time to Michigan and they offered him reconsideration, if Miller could acquire statements from his high school teachers. These affirmations had to show that in Miller had shown some academic progress in his senior year. Miller realized that the odds would not be in his favor and that his teachers were not going to write good things about his academic achievement. Miller began working at his father’s garment company; however, he soon loathed working there. Miller stopped working at his father’s company and commenced his job search once again.

When he finished middle school, he attended Gonzaga College High School. Since he was still homeless at the time he said that he did not know how his mother managed to get him into such a rich school. His mother also never told him anything about herself, therefore everything he knows about her is purely observation. He said that the environment of Gonzaga “saved” him. He then recalled that all of his friends who went to other “rough schools” in the area, spent a large quantity of time in jail.

I saw in his eyes sheer delight and the joy of accomplishment. He had successfully faced a pitcher older and bigger and had fought off pitch after pitch before knocking a single into left field. His base hit drove in a run, continued an inning and fueled a rally which brought the team a victory from what looked like a certain defeat. He was willing to be taught and was willing to try. Success was secondary to the life skills he was mastering. Character traits will certainly be developed as one participates in team sports, but to attain positive character traits will require deliberate efforts by parents, adults, teammates and even leaders of the organization itself.