I believe Sports Instills Life Lessons
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I have been playing sports all of my life. From when I was very little playing little league baseball to where I am now, a collegiate athlete playing Division I lacrosse I have learned many things. I have learned how to play the sport, condition myself, and better myself as an athlete through playing and practicing my sports. More importantly what I have learned through sports is how to handle myself in the real world. I have learned that sports have taught many life lessons.
When I was in high school my basketball coach talked to the team about what we can learn about playing the game of basketball and how it applies to life. He explained that many of our life lessons come from the game experiences, the preparation for the games, and the time that we spend together as a team. When he first explained this to the team, I felt that there was no way life and sports are remotely close to being the same as each other. But as I listened to his explanations and his reasoning behind each life lesson I began to understand how similar life was to sports.
Every great motivating coach that I have had, have stressed several terms to the team about how to be successful. I believe that each successful trait can translate into our every day daily lives. As I sat hear thinking of all the beliefs that my coaches have preached to me over the years of playing sports I realized that there are ten important things that are stressed almost daily.
A good work ethic, communication, teamwork, patience, discipline, how to handle adversity, time management, leadership, how to handle yourself within the public eye, and how to work with people who have different views are all stressed daily within the sports and real world. Through all of these terms I believe that if you apply it to your job or what ever you do later in life you will be more successful. Through sports you learn about each term and how to adjust and manage them. Sports allow the trial and error method for you to learn from your mistakes and to know what works best.
So as a kid I never thought that by saying man ball would really help with my communication skills later in life. Nor did I know that by our coach running us and making us lift was instilling a better work ethic upon us. But as I grew up and matured as a person I realized that it was the little things in which sports would implant stronger meanings of life lessons.
10 comments:
I can really relate to your post Kyle. I fell as if our childhoods were very similar. I too played multiple sports growing up and every single coach I had stressed how important it was to make connections between sports and real life, almost more than teaching the sport itself. The little things like communication and teamwork really do matter in the long run. Much like you, I definitely believe that playing sports throughout my life has, and will help me develop more and more as a person. I really didn't find anything you need to improve on other than a few punctuation errors. Clean those up and you'll have a great post. Well Done
I like how you spelled out the ten terms we can apply to real life. I also think sports can teach a great deal of discipline and lessons to learn from. I coach softball and the players always laugh when I try to apply the sport to real life. Anyways, other than some gramatical mistakes (words and make sure to use quotes), your essay is good.
I think this is a great essay. I also agree that sports can teach you a lot of things you use in every day life. There were a couple mistakes and a few sentences that I thought got confusing but other than that, it was to the point.
i feel the same way about how sports can teach you life lessons. I've been playing sports all of my life, and I have learned such things as teamwork,commitment, and self-respect. All in all, it was a great post.
This is very great as far as content goes. The idea is great! However, maybe you could vary your sentence beginnings a little bit. For example, in the first paragraph, you being about 4 sentences with "I learned..." Otherwise, great essay!
I really enjoyed your essay. I liked how you stated the multiple lessons you extracted from the sports you played and made it apparent. It was very clear and easy to relate to. Just as everyone else said, I would just revise it for grammer errors and you have a great essay! :)
Kyle,
Congrats on the America East title last night. Sounds like it was a crazy game. Your essay really hit home for me as both a player and a coach. The "ten important things" that you mention coaches transmit to players and players learn from their experiences are right on the money. You definitely put a lot of thought into identifying them. While all of them are undoubtedly important, handling adversity is something that competitive athletics teaches you whether you want it or not. Handling and overcoming adversity is the only way an individual and their team can succeed on a daily and cumulative basis. While you might have the perfect quarter or maybe even half of execution, there is no such thing as the perfect game. Every match is a test of how you and your fellow mates can handle what is thrown at them. The games I remember the most aren't the ones when we came out and smoked somebody 14-2. They are the games when we were down and humanity was crushed but we somehow banded and scraped together and got a "W." Those are some of my greatest accomplishments in life - winning against all odds. I hope that you guy's can put last nights experience to good use against UVA next weekend. There can be nothing better than beating the Wahoos in front of their home crowd. If you can come back from nine in the second quarter, you can easily achieve that.
I think your essay was great, and I can relate having played many sports as a kid and in highschool. I think that you might try to draw the reader in a little bit more, and work on sentence structure. Other than that and a few grammatical mistakes the essay seems great. Good jobs
I thought it was interesting to read about all of the things that playing sports taught you. I don't play any, but I'm a musician and I learned teamwork, patience, work ethic, etc. from that. If you can't work with other people as a musician you just make awful noise, if you don't have a strong work ethic, you'll never play any better than a beginner. So, it was interesting to read about that from your perspective.
Good essay. I like your topic. I think that the learning aspect of sports is very important. I think that, to spice it up a little bit, you could add a particular story in which you learned a life lesson. Maybe a specific game where you were tested.
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