I plan to play professional sports and most people think athletes are inarticulate or below average or incapable to learn. I have been labeled and been stereotyped my whole life, I know how it feels to be called below average or told “you are incapable to make it in society”, I know how it feels to want to give up, I know the feeling of defeat. I lived my whole life prioritizing the basic thing in life like money, girls, and football, not understanding the key to success until a wise man who I now call my mentor told me “if you don’t change you will be stereotyped and insulted your whole life the key to success is not only your athletic ability, in fact that’s useless without an education if you can’t read or write how can you sign a contract or sign a check.”. I realized that there is more to life and that everybody was affected by my decision so I got a tutor and started to write