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Being small is a blessing in disguise. As John Wooden once said, “It's not how big you are, it's how big you play” John won ten NCAA basketball championships in twelve years and is considered the best coach in NCAA basketball history. Because I am small and play sports, I have learned a very valuable lesson about hard work. I have never been tall or even average height. The average height is around 5’5” and I am 4’11” . I am at a bigger disadvantage in sports where the average height is 5’8”. This puts me at an extreme disadvantage. But out of this disadvantage I learned that if I work hard anything is possible. I learned my lesson in 3rd grade when I was still very small for my age. I tried out for the basketball travel team and …show more content…

But just like basketball I am super small and not the strongest. The main reason I made the team was because only about 8 kids tried out and we had to find kids to come play with us. I realized fast that baseball would be hard and challenging. I had to be either a lead off hitter or the last guy in the order because I couldn't hit the ball hard enough to be a power hitter. I also had to work harder in the field because I couldn't throw the ball nearly as far or hard as most kids. This was a big challenge for me that I had to overcome. So I started working, I also wanted to be a pitcher too, so I had to learn how to do that as well. I would throw on one day the next day would be hitting then the last day was pitching. Throwing, hitting, pitching, over and over again for the last month and half of summer. Then by the end of summer I had the skills necessary to compete with the larger kids my age and have a chance to play the positions I wanted in catcher and shortstop. This made me extremely happy, but our record did not. We only won 6 out of about 30 games. The next year we were better and we continued to improve as a team every year and we are now winning about 66% of our games. This has taught me that hard work by myself and as a team can greatly change how well we do with

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