I'm Welcome to the sports motivation podcast.

It's your host, Nees Showbo.

This is going to be a really, really important reality check for you athletes.

And make sure you stick around at the end because it's going to be

something very important that's going to help you out a lot towards the end. All right.

So listen, you know, I've been around for a while doing what I'm doing 10 plus years now.

Obviously, you know, I've played ball at the highest level.

You guys know my story in terms of, you know, I was never the biggest, fastest, the strongest. You know, I started playing football in seventh

grade and just loved it, got better, you know, devoted my life to it, you know, had some, had some

lucky breaks as well. That's part of the game. And also experience a lot of failures also. You see what I'm saying? A lot of goals I didn't reach. So it's not like I just reached all my goals and became everything I wanted to be. And I was just the most awesome story. No, there was a lot of pain as well. And so what I've seen and what I've noticed is there are some really, really basic, basic things as athletes that simply must be done in order to even position yourself to be the best and accomplish your goals and reach these goals that many people

don't reach. You understand, like, even if you, you know, some of you go to high, let's say

some of you guys are in high school, your varsity team is hard to get on. Then after that,

you want to go to college. College teams are hard to get on.

It's hard to get a scholarship.

There's a lot, a lot of athletes, whatever sport it is that you're playing,

that want to make it to college and get these scholarships.

Then let's say you get the scholarship.

It's hard to get on and get playing time because now you're

competing with other players who have scholarships. And on top of that, you want to get to the

pros. And you don't want to get to the pros. You actually want to play in the pros. You want to earn

real money in the pros. You want to stay in the pros for many years. This shit is hard to do, man.

So there's a lot of things that have to go your way, right?

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