Personal Narrative: I Want To Quit

The Want to Quit If someone quits playing a sport or activity, then they truly do not love it. For some quitting is the easiest thing to do when things get hard and for others like myself who grew up in a household that never quit on anything, especially if they were truly passionate about it, it’s the hardest thing you can ever do. All my life I have played soccer. I was born and raised in Springfield, Virginia where playing soccer was a yearlong activity. So growing up you could always find me on the soccer field kicking the ball around with my friends. I was used to just be the best and the star of the team. That all changed when I moved to Marshall Missouri. Marshall is a very small rural community with a population size of approximately 13,000. I moved to Marshall the summer going into my freshman year in 2012. I knew right away I wanted to be on the soccer team and try to be the star again. However, the very first practice, I came to the coach made the team run 3 miles and I was one of the last ones to finish. After we finished are cardio workout we went to the field and actually did some offensive drills. The first
I met my first goal and was on varsity. However, l wanted to start a few games and make a difference for my team. At the beginning of the season, I started off on the bench. I felt just as bad as I did a year before, I wasn’t good enough for the coach and just wanted to quit. I keep my head up and just used it as motivation. I was tired of feeling bad for myself. I stayed late after practice to run extra laps and went all out in practice. Until one night we went down to play Warrensburg high school to play and my coach thought I was ready to get my very first start. I was extremely happy and wanted to prove myself. We ended up winning the game seven to one and I got my first career assist. I went on to start two other games and helped my school win their third conference title in a