A wise man told me "If you aren't working, you aren't winning." It was my first day of high school, I walked in to school scared. I was very nervous of what was ahead of me. After a few days I signed up to play football. A couple of hours passed and the football coach approached me and asked me if I had signed up to play football, I told him yes I did. The coach told me to come by the gym and he would talk to me and tell me how and what I needed to do to be football player, and what football would do to impact my life. He sat me down and told me I would have to get stronger, faster, and smarter. He told me that football would let make me a hard worker and very smart in my decisions. This is what made my life change, this is …show more content…
I was walking in school one day and coach Adams approached me and said "meet me in my office at 3:00." I told him I would. 3:00 comes around and I'm in his office and he says to me "Tyler I am extremely proud of you, you’re a hard worker and you don’t give up and you will be very successful if you keep it up, not only in football but in life as well." That really opened my eyes and told me I got to keep working hard if I want to be something in my life. People has always told me I'm to little, not strong enough. I just try my best to prove them wrong. And when I do it makes me smile and say "I told you I could do it!" I think if people want to doubt me let them, I'm going to do everything in my power to do the best I possibly can to show them what I can really do.
Now that the offseason has passed and football practice has finally started, I'm feeling confidant, I'm feeling excited to see what is ahead of my career. The first game comes around and we are in Conway playing The Conway Tigers. One of our best players Jarvis Brown our Quarterback tears his meniscus. Coach Adams comes to me and says "Tyler its your time do the best you can." Lets not forget I had never played Quarterback in my life it was my first year and I was very scared. But thanks to the players around me and how helping they were we won the game. The next Monday