Football requires determination, perseverance, and heart. These three things are what separates average players from great players, mediocre teams from excellent teams. Those six words not only describe football, but my look on life as well. In life, we all need determination, perseverance, and heart to succeed in life as well as football. Determination is having the willpower to work hard to achieve a specific goal. When I am determined to achieve a goal, I work hard everyday until the goal is achieved to try and reach it. During football, we have team goals on a sheet that we as a team want to accomplish this season. But I as an individual and a player, I have goals of my own that I would personally like to …show more content…
During a game, if we are losing, we don’t just give up. No we keep trying and working to make plays work so we can score and win. During life, if things aren’t going my way and I want something to happen, I’m going to keep going and working until it happens. I persevere. The last word and to me, the most important, heart. Having heart means that when the odds of winning or coming back or accomplishing life's goals are against me, that’s when my grind starts. During life, we all need a lot of heart. Especially when we have dreams and people say that we will never accomplish them. I have a dream of going to a nice college to play football. People always tell me that I will never make it or they make up excuses for saying I won’t like saying that I’m too small to play in college. Well my grind has started already. My heart is determined to play football in college. Throughout my life and football career, I’ve learned many things. But those three words, determination, perseverance, and heart are the ones that stand out to me the most. Be determined to not give up dreams. Persevere until those dreams become reality. Have heart to keep moving forward when others say we can’t. Football requires determination, perseverance, and heart. I would’ve also said life but I could only use six