Summary Of 'What Could Be Better Than A Touchdown?'

When playing football you need to always be thinking on the run. In the debate over the importance of physical prowess and mental agility in sports, Sanneh and Heinrich have similar views, with Sanneh supporting the idea that mental strength and agility has a contribute in football in “What Could Be Better Than A Touchdown?” and Heinrich suggesting that mental strength and agility is also used in running and “Why We Run” has a lot of examples of that.

To begin with, When you’re playing football you need to always be thinking on the run. In addition to the thesis we need to use evidence from the text to support the claim. In the passage it states that “Dwight Lowery,has been watching the play unfold.He breaks toward the ball,Intercepts it’s
Just like the first paragraph we need evidence to support the claim. “Although at that moment I could just barely have run another step further” I found this quote on page number sixty-five. This supports my thesis because you need a lot of agility to go those far distances and mental strength you need to have because of the effect or beating running has on you. “And our minds,as much as our lungs” I found this quote on page sixty-eight. This supports my thesis because it said our mind and that is all mental strength and our lungs are the agility.

In conclusion mental strength and agility are important because any sport you’ll take a beating and you will always need to be agile. It matters to have mental strength and agility because if your mind can take the beating and especially if your body could take the beating. You also need to put in effort and you’re not supposed to put in one-hundred percent you need to put in one-hundred and ten percent because you gotta dig deep down to find that part of you that is searching for