Vince Lombardi once said, “Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity-- having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.” I do believe, that I have the capacity, willing to use it at any time, and a good character to become a great leader but, leaders aren’t born, they are made. The people that molded me the most, are all my coaches, in particular, Coach Sloan, Coach Huffman, and Coach Turbo. They all contributed in different ways to make me into the young leader I am today. My 3rd period biology teacher was Coach Sloan. He was a kind-hearted man, that had a extreme love …show more content…
Coach Huffman was a cool dude that everybody liked. If you asked a student that was in the 7th grade that year, which was their favorite coach, it would be an instant Coach Huffman. Coach Huffman was a strict, but fair type of coach. He would always runs us after practice and if we messed up a drill we ran or if we didn’t listen he ran us. He was firm believer in staying shape. Since he coached the B team, he didn’t coach many plays. The ones he did coached, we could run in our sleep. One day after practice, Coach got his computer and started show us youtube videos about old football players. He introduced me to my favorite football in history Bo Jackson. He said that I had the potential to be like all those football players and all those football players had one thing in common, they lead their team in some way. The next morning we had a three team tournament in Teague and it was the last game. We already beaten Fairfield and we were behind against Teague. Coach took a timeout so we can gather ourselves. He told me to step up and be a leader then he called me “Bo.” We went back out there and I did what he told me. I stepped it up. I ended up with five blocks, six points, and a couple of assist and we won the game. That day, Coach Huffman helped me with my willingness to lead. Coach Huffman believe in me and if he could believe in me, maybe so can