SUCCESS ISN'T ON THE SCOREBOARD

One of the most important life lessons to be learned in competitive athletics is that you can work very hard and sacrifice, but not always come out on top on the scoreboard because the other team is also working hard. 

It is a different lesson than learned in a classroom, because most high school students can earn successful grades in most classes where they work very hard.  They are not competing against others for the grades, only against a standard.

The road to becoming a good basketball player is not by any means an easy road.  It is a road paved with hard work, sweat, skinned knees, and sometimes tears.  Along the way you will find victory and defeat, encouragement and discouragement, disappointment and joy, praise and criticism, success and failure, but you should always retain the satisfaction of knowing you did the best you were possibly capable of doing.  

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