I have heard many people say "role models are important in our lives", in my opinion they are 100% correct. One way or another there is always someone we are going to look up to. The majority of the time they bring out the good in ourselves, and they inspire us to do great things. You ask any athlete in the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, etc and they will tell you that they had an inspiration growing up. Every sports player has one. One amazing athlete that has some sort of skill we all desire. Without an athlete role model, there wouldn't be anyone to inspire us.
The greatest to ever play the game, the great one, the one who could fly, the one who scored 38 points while battling the flu, the bird man, simply.... AMAZING!
Michael Jordan is one of the most highly regarded athletes ever. 75% of players in the NBA (National Basketball Association) said that growing up, Mike Jordan was their inspiration and favourite player. There are 32 teams in the NBA and each team has about twenty players. If you do your calculations, that's 640 players. That means that 480 players in the league idolized MJ when they were growing up. He is a prime example of an inspiration to basketball players around the world. One man, one unnaturally talented man, has inspired thousands of basketball players. Without this man to make history, who could say if half of the players now would even be in the NBA. I know when I was growing up Michael Jordan inspired me to play basketball. The common saying, even the movie states it, "I wanna be like Mike." The three best players in the league idolized Jordan growing up, and these three are now inspirations to ballers everywhere.
The three best basketball players in the world, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and Kobe Bryant.
And then there was the Brantford, Ontarian legend, Wayne Gretzky, and the other Canadian legend, Maurice Richard, "The Rocket."
Two amazing Canadian inspirations. The players who entered the NHL after the Gretzky era admitted that he was there inspiration growing up. He was arguably the best player ever to play the game, and the majority of hockey players know it. Hockey players want to be like him. They practiced their hardest to play like their inspiration. Look where it got lots of them, to the NHL, the largest league concerning hockey.
And the second, Maurice Richard, more famously known as, "The Rocket." To the older players, he was their greatest inspiration. People wish they could play the way he could. But more importantly, hockey players wanted his number one skill, his speed on the ice. Richard was one of the fastest hockey players to ever play the game.
Peyton Manning (top) is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. Young quarterbacks use him as their inspiration, as his skill defines him. His pinpoint, precise, powerful passes are attributes that every quarterback wish they could have. The second athlete is Jerome Simpson who is a wide receiver in the NFL right now. He is one of the greatest wide receivers in the league, and young receivers look up to him. He has all the skills receivers want, speed, agility, powerful, aggressive, agile, nifty. Players like these are influencing new athletes to become in love with the game, and influencing these players to reach their maximum potential.
The point I am trying to make after all this is that sports players are role models to young athletes, young athletes need sports players as their role models. The sports players inspire the young athletes to be all they can be, to work as hard they can and their dreams will come true. Work yourself, and you will succeed.
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Excellent work Cam. Your posts show solid research and graphic elements. Thanks for including links as instructed (not everyone did)! I would have liked to hear more on your own personal opinions on some of these issues...good work overall!
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