Analysis Of NFL Defensive Player By JJ Watt

Are people who we idolize and achieve prominence considered to be a virtuous person? The three time NFL Defensive Player of the year, JJ Watt, states that “Success isn 't owned. It 's leased and rent is due every day. Every single day, someone 's coming for your job. Someone 's coming for your greatness. If you 're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you 're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.” This demonstrates his belief that excellence is obtained through competition, in which this is in everything that we do causing it to be everywhere; nevertheless, to a certain extant this is true, such as competing for desirable material goods, rewards, and power. Although, when most people think of competition, …show more content…
Even though athletic teams practice their sport, they do not necessarily exercise perfect practice. A prime example of this is the Houston Texans team, were JJ Watt is a member. JJ Watt is sought as being the best defensive end player in the National Football League. By hearing this, one would think that he played on the best team in the NFL, however; that is not the case. Even though JJ Watt is the best on the team, it does not improve the teams winning ability because it 's a team sport and to actually achieve greatness everyone on the team has to practice the perfect practice by keeping the balancing point of competition in order to compete with each other, which will enable them to support each other. Competition is not just confined to athletes; there can be competition among various professions, such as nursing. I am a nursing major planning to enter a nursing program to specialize in being a Nurse Practitioner. It is very competitive to enter a nursing program, the competition starts from the day one decides to enter college for nursing. The individual has to maintain a high GPA, pass the nursing entrance exam, exit exam, and license exam to become a registered nurse. For nursing, competition is the ability to have the skills to reason; as well as the knowledge and inspiration to respond to the issues that arise in the profession. Aspiring nurses are constantly competing with one another; since only so many students are accepted into nursing school and once accepted there are only so many job offers after finishing school, they are always battling to purse greatness to achieve what they want to be and where they want to be in life. Therefore, a virtuous nurse tries to perform her job in an excellent manner; even though there is competition involved, it should be balanced with compassion because