Personal Philosophy

" hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"
                                                                                          Tim Notke

     The buzzer sounded and the perfect season had come to an end with a heart breaking lost. I layed there in tears thinking why had this happened? How could this have happened? After all we were 22-0 and had been the favorites to win the tournament. so why did we lose to and average team with a bunch of average players.
     All this happened during my 8th grade year at the gold crown tournament. my team was compromised of prime basketball players from different schools. we had cruised through every game destroying every opponent we faced. Now that the playoffs had started we were four wins away from being tournament champs. But our chances had disappeared before the game even began, we just didn't know it yet.
     When we first got on the court and saw our opponents we were all smiles. they were short, slow, and looked nonathletic. we started goofing around and not taking warm ups seriously. When the game started we got blitzed and were down instantly. ?But we didn't care because we were more talented and continued to play lazy and with no effort. near the end of the game we were down and things started to get serious. We started hustling and working hard. we got it back to a two point game but there was only time for one more play left. the play wasn't designed for me to take the shot but somehow the ball got to me and i heaved up a prayer. as the time expired the ball bounced off the rim and we had lost. I was devastated.
     From all this i learned a very important lesson, you should always work hard no matter what. since that day i work my hardest at all that i do. weather its in games or just practice.