Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.
Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.