Why Courage Is Important To Me

Courage is doing what you know is the right thing even when it is hard to do. Courage is the one thing that I had to have my whole life playing sports. Being smaller and shorter than everyone else on and off the field, it always made me half to work harder than everyone and to have a different mentality than most people did. With courage and hard work I was able to survive on the field.

Starting at five years old I was always the little guy playing football, baseball, and basketball, all sports of which size does matter, now there are a plethora of really superb athletes that are small but if you look at the percentage of them compared to the ones that are twice their size it’s a huge difference. The sports that I played weren 't really ones that I saw and was in awe of, most of the reason that I played the sports I did was because I saw my older brother play them. Having an older brother who not only was very exeptional, but was always so much bigger than everyone els, at 12 years old he was almost 6 feet, so for me there was a lot to live up to. When I started to play football everyone already kinda knew me because of my brother and because my parents had already been around the organization for a few years, the coaches that I met expected me to be as big as my brother was but then when I showed up I feel like they were surprised. Flag football is what I started playing initially but all I wanted to do was to tackle and to actually play like the big kids play, I looked up to

I feel that people did not respect how good he actually was, and when it came time for Jackie to play, he sure did courageously outplayed the other players and proved how good he could be. I feel that I am like jackie robinson because I was under estimated also and seen as no threat on the field. Courageously I show that being small and being different isn 't always a bad