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Personal Narrative: The Greatest Athlete Failure
Failure is inevitable, everyone at some point in their lives has faced failure. The greatest athletes in history fail, but it is what you do to overcome this failure that truly shows how determined you are and how bad you truly want it. Michael jordan was cut from his high school team. He used this failure as motivation and overcame the adversity faced and put in the work that others weren't willing to do and turned into one of the greatest basketball players in history. This just shows you that failure is only motivation and can be used by some people who want to be successful bad enough to put all of the hard work in. I have failed at some points during my life and have worked hard to get through it. When I played baseball in middle school I would do my best and overcome failure from previous games.
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