When I was growing up my parents instilled in me that I could be whatever I put my mind to doing. And as we grow older we tend to move away from this belief and live under other peoples expectations of us. Regardless of what field we go into there is always somebody saying what you can do and what you can’t do and we tend to follow this. Playing basketball, this is something that I have dealt with my whole life. Having a natural skinny build people always told me that I was too skinny to play at the next level. Something that has always stuck with me was when I tried out for my middle school team and didn’t make it. I went home and cried and told my parents I never wanted to see a basketball again. My father being the person that he was always kept me motivated and he would go outside and rebound for me for hours. And every shot that I made he would build my confidence and tell me nobody could stop me. Of course having him in my corner was a major impact in my life but also the fact that he would believe in me is something that always propelled me.

Fast forward to my second year playing basketball at this junior college. I wasn’t getting the playing time I wanted so I went to the coach and asked him why am I not playing. This is what he said ” I think you have reached your potential, everybody has a cap that they top off at and I think you are there. I can’t see you getting any better or better yet playing at a high level”. Little did he know he made me into a beast. The following year I transferred and I saw we had him on our schedule. This picture was captured during the game and till this day I couldn’t tell you what emotion I was feeling

I Ended up having 29 points and showed everybody in that gymnasium that there are not such things as limitations. The moral of this post is to tell you that don’t ever let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. If you want to do something make up in your mind that nobody is going to get in the way of my goal and press your way through it. When someone tries to put a limitation on you, use that as fuel to prove them wrong. The only person that can stop you is you. BE GREAT!

Coach Q