Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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