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Narrative Essay On Steve Puoff

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“How am I supposed to count on a guy who can’t finish sprints? Who can’t give the effort to be great?” our new seventh grade football coach screamed into my facemask, spitting in anger. This was my wake up call. To this very day I have the same coach, and I still have flashbacks to that moment when he challenged me like I had never before been challenged. This 30 seconds would change who I am forever. When I was in seventh grade we were introduced to our new head coach, Steve Poff. No one knew much about him other than me, and the only thing I knew was that he played some high school football with my uncle and was supposed to be a “psycho.” This all changed when we started playing for him. We learned that he was a perfectionist who …show more content…

My teammates started to all realize one by one that it was time to man up. From this day forward no one ever quit sprints again, and I guess in this sense I finally felt like a leader amongst my peers.
Some of my teammates, who may not have had the same experience and been challenged the way I was, have let this attitude toward football die. The reason I have not and never will let it go is because I look at it as more of a way of life. I go about my business wholeheartedly, and with the intention of never having to ask myself, “What if?” I think if you are not willing to give something all that you have, then it is not worth doing at all.
Today, when I am faced with adversity I always have this flashback of Coach Poff’s challenge to me. Whenever my job gets hard and it seems like it would be better if I would just quit, whenever Coach Poff runs us now for making little mistakes in practice, or whenever schoolwork seems overwhelming and it would be easier to not do it, I find a way to get through it and be successful. Like Coach Poff continues to preach at practice, “Your life will be what you make it. The work you’re willing to put into anything parallels what you will get out of it, and let me assure you that it’s always worth

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