Basketball Persuasive Speech

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Life can throw you some curveballs and sometimes you hit a grand slam but sometimes you get hit and this is just how life goes. However some of those curve balls make you a stronger person. If you do not fail you do not get better, if you always win you will become cocky and act like you are going to win every time and then when you don’t win you act out. One time in my life I had gotten a curve ball and got hit was very recently. I was doing the sport that I love and that I am captain of the team. When we were doing a section of the routine it was the tumbling section and I got left behind. I do not have the best tumbling but I able to do what they were doing, this will be my fourth year on the team there were girls that were on there for …show more content…
I thought that this was because we got a new that has a bad attitude and acts like she just does not care about anything. She is the only one that does not have a back handspring on the team so I took the blame for …show more content…
The I had a sleepover that Saturday and my Mom was talking to the moms that were there, they were all on my cheer team. They thought that thought the same thing that my Mom did. This relates to failure because my back handspring is not the best so I got out of a part. However I grew from that because I learned that it is not always about skill it is about personality. If I did not have a good attitude I was have just acted out however I just took it and I sat in the back. I also felt a compliment that she thought I would act out because I did not get a part that I have been doing for the last 2 years maybe 1. So now the younger girls on the team could look up to me that you just do what is the best for the team. I don’t mind that if it was for the team. But if she just doesn’t like my tumbling (which I don’t either) that might hurt me. But I will never know but now I can breathe and why the girls are tumbling I can cheer them on like a good captain does. I will encourage them to keep going thru the routine that they can keep going, also that they feel like they are doing good to keep

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