“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”

Your will must be stronger than your skill. I found this sentence very true to myself. To understand that I must explain to you that in life I've always been the underdog, therefore I had to be mentaly tougher than anyone and everyone else, mainly this pertains to sports but that also bleeds into my life because sports have shaped who I am as a person. Growing to be only 5'8 hasn't helped my cause in sports. I wasn't born with much natural tallent, so all that I have accomplished I have earned, nothing has been givin to me, I have had to take it. Throughout high school I played four different sports, and everyday at every practice I gave my all. I had to work twice as hard to get half the results as most others. Dont get me wrong over the years I have molded myself into a fairly deicent athlete but this hasn't been easy, it has came with great sacrifice. Instead of relaxing on a saturday afternoon planing that nights activities, you would find me in the gym practicing my shot, or on the road running yet another mile. I eat healthy, I don't drink pop, I've never had a drop of alchol, not because I don't nessisarly want to, because sometimes I'm tempted, but because I can't in order to give myself a shot at achieving the goals I have set for myself. This gives me great a great sense of satisfaction at the end of the day knowing I have done everything in my power to make myself better., Leading this lifestyle has makes me appriciate those who have overcome adversity to succeded in professional sports despite not being textbook athletes such as Steve Nash, Steve Prefontaine, Wes Welker and world series MVP David Eckstein

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." -- Tim Notke