Their's nothing wrong with a little hard work

It makes me sick to my stomach when I see high school football players who act like they're afraid of the weight room. And yet they want to voice how bad they want to go to college, but don't want to put the work in to get their. Then after a coach has begged them to get in the weight room for 3 1\2 years then they finally come, then they want the coach to break a leg to try to get them in college. It seems they feel like they're so talented that they don't need to work out. For EX: I know this football player who had the most prolific freshman and sophomore season's I have seen as far as stats and in terms of one of the hardest workers. In fact during the spring of his sophomore year he was the 1st player college coaches asked about. It seemed to me after the spring game of his sophomore year he began to think he was the best at his position in the area, and he stopped working as hard as he should have, and I guarantee you the player's at his position who was not better than him at that time in the city or state outworked him and eventually became better than him. You should realize that talent can only take you so far, but hard work is the only thing that can take you to the next level. The common athlete thinks the coach is trying to hurt you by trying to get you into the weight room when he's actually trying to develop a habit that will make you a better athlete and person. The thing that makes me so mad is when I see athletes who have so much potential, but has some of the laziest work ethics I have ever seen. What gets to me is when that same person wants to say how much they want to get to college but doesn't want to put the work in to get their. Then after their senior year is over they realize they should have worked harder than they did and instead of your coach worrying about signing day he is struggling to get you into a division 2/3 college. What really upset is when I found out from a source that a player we can't even get in the weight room is playing AAU basketball when he knows his best chance to make it to college is through football, I guess he's going to get better by doing nothing. A common trend that I have noticed is how the athletes look for every excuse not to work out, and how they constantly let girls or friends get in the way of their potential success. Because the moment you realize that you are trying to get to the next level you want let nothing get in your way. Because I guarantee you if your friend gets a offer he's not going to ask are you going to offer my friend , so you have to be SELFISH about you, and when you're on the field/ weight room you don't have for playing around because you're trying to get BETTER.