Why Soccer Is Important In My Life

Soccer used to be my life. I played city league soccer for five years, after which I started playing competitive soccer for a traveling team. I used to eat, sleep, and breath soccer. That is, until I didn't make the high school soccer team. Nine, almost ten years of soccer went down the drain the day my name didn't get called by the coach. As you can probably imagine, I was devastated. My freshman ego and self confidence was torn into a million seemingly irreparable pieces. I often wondered why I tried for so long to master soccer, if ultimately it would seemingly all go to waste. While I was wallowing in my despair the day after soccer tryouts, I heard about tennis tryouts the following day. I had played a little bit of tennis when I was
Success is often something we stumble upon right when we are about to go over the edge of our personal limits. Success takes hard work, dedication, and a strong drive. There is the rare occasion when success is given to someone just because their family before them was successful. But more commonly, successful people are those who aren't afraid to get their hand dirty. Hard work never killed anyone, yet the crazy idea that work is not important somehow popped into people's minds and has plagued the world ever since. The world needs more go getters, more dreamers, more doers, and most importantly, more of the individuals who have ideas that will make the world better. Second, success doesn't start on the soccer field, the tennis court, or even in high school. Success is something programmed into the human skill set ever since we took our first breath of air as a newborn. Success isn't determined by how many times you succeed, it is determined by how many times you fail and say "Let's try this again." Little things can be just as much a success as the big things. Tennis is the subject of my success. Although soccer was a massive part of my life, it became merely a stepping stone for me to use when I found a new