Love and basketball As you know, your human and so am I and we are not perfect. We all will make mistakes in our life time at some point or another. Those mistakes we make we shouldn’t knock ourselves for. Instead, we should learn from our mistakes. There is one mistake that I made that stands out the most and that I regret more than others. I stopped playing basketball after my freshman year of high school. Not a day goes by that I don’t regret setting the ball down and walking out of Case Arena
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Report My favorite idol that inspired me is an American professional basketball player, he has a nickname call “Black Mamba”, and he is Kobe Bryant (born August 23, 1978). Kobe plays for Los Angeles Lakers team of the National Basketball Association. Kobe has 5 NBA championship rings in his 17th career. Kobe Bryant also is a 15-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. As of March 2013, he ranks third and fourth on the league's all-time
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with Morrie Ms. Donia 01/10/2014 Introduction Love is the most important of all values. Love is the wonderful feelings that express your affection, love, and friendship with someone. Nobody on this planet can live a life without love, it’s impossible. As human beings we thrive for affection, love is something nobody can take away from us. Love brings on another close like a family on Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and even at school. Love is the most important thing to survive, the 3 things
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football, baseball, and my first love basketball, it has took me all across the world and allowed me to meet and network with other players and coaches. With that being said the game of basketball broaden my ideas all together. The love for the game drives me today to become someday a coach at the collegiate level. For this assignment I went forth with interviewing my coach Kelly Wells who has also influenced my life in many other ways than just the correct way of scoring the basketball. I began our
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School Basketball Coach As a part of this assignment, I chose to interview a friend of father’s who is a head basketball coach in my hometown. I was recently home for Spring Break and was able to meet with Ken Overton to discuss his career as a high school basketball coach and the years he spent as a teacher. I also was able to ask him many questions about how he chose this path and what steps are needed to realize this dream. I admit it is a little difficult to envision such a path at my age but
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BASKETBALL A big change in my life, was when I chose to start playing in a division 1 basketball team, it was a good chose. I can’t imagine how my life would be without basketball but to get there where I am today, have been a lot challenges moments. “To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will” – Suger Ray Robinson. I want to be the best and that is still my goal. So much time for nothing? I started to play basketball when I was 15 years old. It’s
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Vacation tour director 5. High school Teacher 6. College basketball coach 7. Pro basketball player nba/oversees 8. Clothing store owner 9. Athletic trainer 10. Banker The two things I would pick out of this list to be in life would have to be a clothing store owner and a pro basketball player. I want to own a clothing store because it has always been a dream of mine. I’m really into fashion and I love clothes and the latest sneakers. Although you don’t need any type of
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his miniature size. He didn’t let this get in the way of his dream, he transformed himself into an NBA draft pick where he had a prodigious career. He averaged 11.0 points for his career and has played for 8 different NBA teams. His antics on the basketball court are well known, but he’s also an accomplished football player, he’s the son of former Eagle Jacque Robinson. He played football in college where he was a notable two-sport athlete. When he finally
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Defining a Parent Growing up in a single-parent home for all of my life, I’ve learned a lot about parenting. Being a parent is a role that is often underestimated. Parents seldom realize the impact that they have on their kids, and how they can impact the kids’ lives for the better or worse. The world we live in today defines a parent by the house they live in and the car they drive. Being a good parent these days is based off of qualities that are unimportant and unrelated to actually being a
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ged my life dramatically; playing basketball is my favorite thing to do and brings joy to my life and family. I have never been good at the whole school thing. I am not an amazing A+ student, and didn’t have the greatest relationship with my family until something great happened. When things aren’t going right I always have basketball to motivate me In high school I was not the best student. I didn’t take it seriously, but that all stopped when I made the varsity basketball team. I didn’t want
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