The Past

During the summer of 2016, I was in a baseball tournament in Louisville Kentucky. It was the championship game and the coach told me I was going to be the starting catcher for that game. The other assistant coach got mad that his son did not get to catch so he told the head coach he would leave the team if his son didn't get to catch. The head coach came to me and said to me I wasn't going to play the championship game because I wasn't as good as the other kid. I was so upset and at that moment I wanted to quit baseball even though I was working at it since I was three years old. My dad came to me and gave me the best advice I have ever received and made me want to work harder to become successful and prove my coach and everyone else who doubted me wrong. My dad said "Son, as soon as you start something you finish it, and you don't let anyone get in the way of that". That inspired me to not just continue to play, but to work even harder to prove everyone who had ever doubted me wrong. To this day, whenever I am in a tough situation, I think back to what my dad told me, and it inspires me to work so much harder.