Flu: I was an okay athlete when I started playing team sports as a kid (Little League and Pop Warner).
The competitive bug bit me when I was around 11, and that was when I learned to push myself. Team sports are indeed great for teaching good life lessons, but, beyond that, you learn more about yourself. I learned never to stay down and to always keep fighting, right to the end.
I look at certain obstacles I’ve overcome as an adult and realize that I learned the lesson as a kid.
Sometimes, NOT being great at sports is actually better. You have to fight for it, and work harder and develop that hard-nosed, “never-say-die” attitude.
Some of the toughest football players I knew were the smaller guys, and I remember a coach saying, “It ain’t the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog”.
