Ex sport athletes if you could start your life over, would you try harder at sports?

[dmvbatman]

like for those that play basketball, football, baseball or any other sport, if you could start over would you go harder at it?

I always wondered what would folks do that always talked about how good they were back in the days if they could start over....

 

[so nyuh shi dae]

I would have started playing hockey at a younger age and I would have never quit when I was starting to develop into a decent player.

 

[tennhouse2]

Yea i wish i could go back to middle school and start over from there

 

[vslackin]

Would've loved to start wrestling earlier in middle school instead of junior year of high school. Coach told me I progressed fast and even beat kids who wrestled longer than me. So much regret.

 

[donttalkitlivit]

Originally Posted by TennHouse2

Yea i wish i could go back to middle school and start over from there

Would never had made the pro's, but I could have gotten a scholarship for college

 

[dmvbatman]

I think I would have enrolled in boxing while I was around 8 or 9...started early.

or kept up with football from jr high school

 

[frank mucus]

Would've started taking basketball more seriously in grade school and middle school. 

 

[jdi23]

Originally Posted by donttalkitlivit

Originally Posted by TennHouse2

Yea i wish i could go back to middle school and start over from there

Would never had made the pro's, but I could have gotten a scholarship for college

 

[kbweezy24]

i wish i could go back and play soccer when i was young

 

[regal black]

Originally Posted by Frank Mucus

Would've started taking basketball more seriously in grade school and middle school. 

Same here.  I get people asking me all the time if i play ball.  I'm 6'4 btw.  I just got mad lazy and didn't care.

 

[bjm5295]

i would have gone harder at GOLF. i can putt like a champ, but the woods and irons end up in the woods.

 

[jd214]

Originally Posted by Frank Mucus

Would've started taking basketball more seriously in grade school and middle school. 

This.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Originally Posted by Dmvbatman

I think I would have enrolled in boxing while I was around 8 or 9...started early.

or kept up with football from jr high school

This. If I knew I was gonna stop growing at 5'10 I woulda focused more on football than baseketball.

  

 

[af1 1982]

I wish I started seriously working on my game at a younger age. I dont wish I tried harder bc I practiced everyday. I wish I practiced smarter

 

[degenerate423]

Originally Posted by TennHouse2

Yea i wish i could go back to middle high school and start over from there

Idk why I stopped playing baseball

...

 

[D StaXX]

Nope. I played football my whole life. But in HS, it got really old and it was too much responsibility.
I decided that my sophomore year after getting moved up to Varsity.
My freshman year was by far the most fun I had ever had in HS.
Getting up at 6 a.m., having to stay after practice to watch film, having no life basically.
I miss the games and the comradery but I wanted to be free. High school football in Texas is a religion. Florida too.
I remember during practice I use to wish I were a scrub and wanted to play scout team. Those dudes had it easy. 

 

[Hahahaha]

Yup

 

[dmvbatman]

for all of us going through those old sport star dreams

 

[murkn3m]

yup two messed up legs and cut pt =  no scholarship 

 

[xcautionx]

Definitely would have did all the extra necessary training and off season stuff for basketball. I also stopped playing my junior year to work even though I would have been starting varsity for my senior year, think I could have played college had I been more dedicated and took time to learn the game 

 Ah' well. Life is still pretty good

 

[you big dummy]

Originally Posted by JD214

Originally Posted by Frank Mucus

Would've started taking basketball more seriously in grade school and middle school.

This.

Basketball and football

 

[liu kang 23]

Woulda. Shoulda. Coulda....... Thats the only place I see this going. Im out

 

[D StaXX]

Originally Posted by Liu Kang 23

Woulda. Shoulda. Coulda....... Thats the only place I see this going. Im out

This too but that's the point of the thread. It's really easy for dudes to say they could have gone pro/got scholarships and I'll say about 10% of them are right.
Everyone else, pipe dreams.

 

[do work son]

probably not. probably go back to focus more in school. no real market for a 5'9 SG. i'm a pretty good shooter, kinda hard to shoot over 6'4+ guys 

 

[vslackin]

Originally Posted by Liu Kang 23

Woulda. Shoulda. Coulda....... Thats the only place I see this going. Im out

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Is this not what the thread is asking?