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Written option: A young relative of yours is determined to follow in your footsteps and become a professional athlete, despite the odds being stacked against them. Unfortunately, the headstrong individual has let their grades slip and their parents have asked you to talk some sense into them. What do you say to this aspiring athlete?
I sit them day. Tell em, listen kid. If you want to be a superstar athelete like me you have to continue to work on being the best. That also includes being the best in your classes. Sports are all about your body AND about your mind. So you gotta train that mind just as much as you have to train your body. I believe in your ability to make it in the work of sports. I see the hunger and the drive you have, but you have to remember all the other important things next to working towards that goal. You cannot play if your grades are suffering from that drive. I know you have the power to turn those around and in a few years when you are ready to get drafted into the sports leagues I will be there. To support you in the hard times, in the good times and in the best of times.
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