American jazz legend Duke Ellington said,”A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” I think the meaning of the quote is that the harder the problem, the better you can do to make the problem a solution. I agree with the quote because some of the problems in my life have been hard and I did my best to make them better. One of my worst problems was when I hurt my left hand. I was in 4th grade and we were outside for recess. I played basketball everytime we went out, and this one time we were playing a three versus three, and I played very aggressive defense. I saw a kid going up to the basket and he hit the rim and was about to go out of bounds. I start running towards the ball, and another kid is running towards it too and I jumped out