WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE ATHELETS?
            
             I have been an athlete for a good number of years in my life, so I am really compassionate towards athletes. This is due to the fact that I can understand and relate to them dealing with stress, anxiety, nervousness and pressure during games. All athletes go through this no matter the level of competition. I will attempt in this essay to distinguish between the different types of attitudes displayed by separate types of athletes when dealing with these factors. I will also talk about its effects on their performances in games and their lives in general. It also affects the enthusiasm, competitiveness, excitement for the game and motivation of the athletes regardless of what sport they play.
            
            
            
             The first group of athletes in my list would be children from elementary school up to middle school. They would be in the age range of 8 year olds to 14 year olds. There might be some arguments from older athletes as to if these youngsters can be regarded as real athletes at all due to the fact that they are so young, and might not have any real sense of competition I believe that since they play organized games and have organized practice sessions and work just as hard as older athletes to the best of their ability, they deserve to be called athletes. I also believe that since they play games, they have (however little) some sense of competition in them. They posses a limited amount of competitive spirit in them because they are usually not rightly motivated. In other words, most of them took up the sport for the wrong reasons. One common reason why they might pick up the sport is to please their parents. Parents might forcefully engage their child in a particular sport. Usually the parents think they are helping the child by doing this, or they might just want to live out their unfulfilled dreams in their children. On the other hand, it might be another member of the family that the child wants to imit...