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As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

I can only control what I do when I go compete.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it's a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.

I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.