Are the sacrifices it takes to become an “elite athlete” worth it?
In both articles “The Secret life of Tiger Woods”by Wright Thompson and “Are parents ruining youth sports? Fewer kids play amid pressure” by Michael .S Rosenwald this article gives information about how children are starting to play youth sports and wanting to become a professional at the sport but they parents are starting to ruin it. In the other article it shows how Tiger Woods became a professional golf player but he had to make a lot of sacrifices to become the golfer he is. I believe that all the sacrifices they have to make are not worth it. Tiger Woods was a professional golf player. His dad Earl wanted him to do it because he was a golfer and wanted tiger to follow …show more content…
Jeter and Jordan circulated, talking to with ease to one beautiful woman after the other. At one point Tiger walked up to them and asked the question that live in the heart of every junior high boy and nearly every grown man too. What do you do to talk to girls?” (Thompson 14-15). This shows that Tiger Woods did not know what to do when his friends were talking to girls and shows that while growing up he did not develop the social skills he needed. Some may say that all the sacrifices are worth the risk because of what might come out of it. In the article “Michael Jordan’s plane is detailed in North Carolina blue, and his tail number is N236MJ”(Thompson 4). This shows that Tiger woods did have friends and a great career, but I would say that is all the sacrifices that have to be made by them really worth all the time,effort,and with all the training sometimes comes injuries and sometimes they do recover and come back like nothing ever happened but on the other hand certain injuries that athletes get will affect them for the rest of their life or just force them to quit the sport and go from their. In conclusion, I believe that all the sacrifices that the athletes have and
In both articles “The Secret life of Tiger Woods”by Wright Thompson and “Are parents ruining youth sports? Fewer kids play amid pressure” by Michael .S Rosenwald this article gives information about how children are starting to play youth sports and wanting to become a professional at the sport but they parents are starting to ruin it. In the other article it shows how Tiger Woods became a professional golf player but he had to make a lot of sacrifices to become the golfer he is. I believe that all the sacrifices they have to make are not worth it. Tiger Woods was a professional golf player. His dad Earl wanted him to do it because he was a golfer and wanted tiger to follow …show more content…
Jeter and Jordan circulated, talking to with ease to one beautiful woman after the other. At one point Tiger walked up to them and asked the question that live in the heart of every junior high boy and nearly every grown man too. What do you do to talk to girls?” (Thompson 14-15). This shows that Tiger Woods did not know what to do when his friends were talking to girls and shows that while growing up he did not develop the social skills he needed. Some may say that all the sacrifices are worth the risk because of what might come out of it. In the article “Michael Jordan’s plane is detailed in North Carolina blue, and his tail number is N236MJ”(Thompson 4). This shows that Tiger woods did have friends and a great career, but I would say that is all the sacrifices that have to be made by them really worth all the time,effort,and with all the training sometimes comes injuries and sometimes they do recover and come back like nothing ever happened but on the other hand certain injuries that athletes get will affect them for the rest of their life or just force them to quit the sport and go from their. In conclusion, I believe that all the sacrifices that the athletes have and