How Football Has Impacted My Life

For my entire life, my life has revolved around school and sports. My parents have raised me my whole life to care about school first and everything else behind that. I have tried my whole life to get ahead in school and be a top notch student. Sports are easily the second most important thing in my life. I participate in three sports: football, wrestling, and baseball. I am busy with sports nearly all year, and still continue to take hard, higher level classes. Football has impacted my life more than any sport I participate in. Sports have shaped my life and the person I am today. There has been many things I have had to overcome in sports and my life in general.

Football is my favorite sport, and the sport that I take the most pride in. I like the feeling of the team that stands beside me when I am on the field, and the comradery between me and my teammates while we are out there. I have created many friendships from football that I plan to hold on to. I also have learned life lessons to always get back up even if you have been put down. My junior year I had broke my hand the first game of the year on the very first play. I continued to play through that game and also refused to get anything done to my hand until it was unbearable.
Two weeks after the first game I finally had to go in to the doctor and was out for many games. The doctor cleared me just in time to play our homecoming game, which was perfect for me. I got bumped right into the starting lineup again. I was playing a great game and we were doing well, but it was a tight game still. With two minutes left in the game I did something to what felt like a sprained ankle. I got it taped up as soon as possible but to my own surprise I could not run, and could not continue. I felt so terribly bad that I had let down my teammates. The game went into to overtime where we would pull off the win. That night has taught me to take every opportunity as my last, or it could get pulled from me at any moment. It has also taught me to always keep pushing, I am playing again this year and plan to have a great season, as I have worked for it in the off-season. The drive that the sport has created on me will be a lasting effect on my life, and will use it in my upcoming years.

Thankfully, my family has provided many opportunities for me to get out and explore the country. Although I have never left the country, I plan to explore more of the world, but I have seen many different places. Me and my families favorite place to vacation is Colorado. I have been there many times for vacation, but also for hunting. I have met many different kinds of people while traveling. I am always open to meeting new people and helping people when I can. I am understanding with people no matter what they are on the outside. I can make friends with almost any person I try to be friends with and am friendly all around. I try not to have enemies and I like to have a wide variety of people to be my friends.

My family is also very involved in hunting and the outdoors in general.
Multiple times we have cleaned local roads along our house, because we don't like the thought of having a dirty community. Hunting and appreciating the outdoors has very greatly contributed to the way I look at the environment and keeping it clean. I hate seeing a dirty environment, which causes wildlife to suffer greatly. Hunting is something I love. We never waste an animal and take as much from it as we possibly can for it is not taken for granted by my family and our friends. A clean environment is something of beauty that everyone should see and be able to experience. I never treat an environment or its wildlife with disrespect and like to keep it
clean.

These experiences, hobbies, and traits I have described and explain can all help a community to be happy and clean. These things will be useful to your community which I plan to help and participate in making better. I will do everything I can to improve and help your community. I hope you take these examples into consideration while making your decision. Thank you.