For as long as I can remember, I've been part of a team of some sort of extracurricular (课外的) sport. I started swimming at a young age and then I was 1 to water polo (水球).
Water polo is a 2 sport. We grow together, we hang out together, and we succeed together. 3 in this sport depends on the successes of each other rather than the success of the 4 . This is important because we all realize that 5 we can grow fast alone, we grow more and get closer to our goals 6 .
I was never good when I first started a sport. To be honest, it was 7 when I first started playing water polo. My coach has always 8 me. She once said that we're never going to be 9 at first and that's okay because we can always get better. And get better? I did. No matter how 10 I got I noticed that there was always somewhere I was lacking and somewhere I could 11 .
Being an athlete is 12 . You have to wake up early every day. You have to 13 yourself every day. You have to balance your life outside of sport. But for me, 14 is never an option. I knew that simply throwing in the towel would cause me to be filled with great regret. So don't let hard work 15 your desire to become someone greater than you are today.
