Football is a very demanding sport. If you are a strong willed person, who does not mind hard work, then football is the sport for you. I've been playing football for six years and I love every aspect of the game. In this essay I want to encourage you to give football a shot if you haven't already.
             Many people in this world have only dreams of playing football, but when the dream is over they are left with the regrets of never playing. Lots of people stereotype football players as really big mean people who are very strong and fast. Some of this is true to a certain point. In actuality football is more a mental game than a physical one.
             Football players must work everyday on strength, technique, and mental toughness to become a good football player. Not only are they working on strength, they are also working on character. Football teaches discipline and pride in which they will carry for the rest of their life. Anyone can play basketball, but they would get penalized for knocking a player to the ground. Football is different, a player's job is to be as nasty, ornery, and as mean as possible on the football field. The job is to be physical, aggressive, and attacking. Having said this one must learn how to control one's aggression during a game.
             Sometimes discussions come up with my friends that did not play football just because they did not want to work hard for their dreams. There always seems to be a lot of "I wishes" in the conversation. " I wish I would have played because now that my high school career is over I don't have anything to look back on and be proud of, like football". Does anyone really want to be the person saying this ten years down the road? Or do you want to say " remember that hit I put on that kid that knocked him out of bounds and we one the game because of it?"
             People need to consider themselves risk takers when they play football. Personally...