I started playing football when I was nine years old and I retired from minor league football at twenty-eight years young. Football taught me how hard work can pay off and a little extra work doesn’t hurt.
I remember my senior year in high school we didn’t win a single football game and I wanted to quit so bad because I didn’t want to be labeled as a loser. I toughed it out and at the end of the season I won the first ever coaches award and had a chance to go and play college football.
But life threw me a curve ball, so I had to give up football. But like the saying goes “if you love something let it go and if it was meant to be it will come back”. I found out a local minor league team was holding tryouts and, to make a long story short, I made the team. It turned into nine winning seasons and a lot of fun.
In the end I made a lot of friends, became a student of the game and now I volunteer my services to high school football players to help them become better football players and men. So in the end, I was a winner after all.
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