Honestly bro I play basketball and it’s been my life everyday grinding for the last 5 years and I’m no where near where I envisioned myself being. I’m at a point in my life this month I’ll be 23. Although I have a opportunity to play d2 basketball this year I can’t see myself gaining anything a year from now but wasting more time than I already have. It’s tough cuz I would’ve never thought I seen day I’d lose passion or love for the game, I literally used to be obsessed and was a gym rat and always the hardest worker anywhere I went! But I feel as though God is calling me on different path. Like you phrased it bro “I was putting in all this work and getting nothing out of it”. Thank God he woke me up from that mentality “if you quit your soft mentality”. When in reality if it doesn’t make any sense to stay and your not gaining anything from it then move on with your life.

I have played football my entire life and honestly I don’t know what life would be like without it, but I’m at the point now where I just feel zero passion anymore and just dread practice every day. I’ve started lifting a lot and it makes me truly happy but I feel like football is just hindering that happiness. The only thing that is keeping me in is my team cause I love my team but I just don’t think it’s worth it

This is 100% facts the realization that you not going D1 and that you are not a superstar hurts but you have to move on

People see quitting as a sign of weakness but they don’t realize there is more to it than that and they just don’t see what is going on inside.

I feel like I’d be letting a lot of people down but at the end of the day I’m doing this for myself and not anyone else, whether they understand it or not

You’ve helped me make this important decision and I just want to say thank you for the input with this thing that I’ve just been avoiding for so long now

I feel you, man. I'm probably gonna quit bruh even though it's my senior year. I don't wanna quit cause of my friends, but this shit gonna affect me and stress me tf out when the cons outweigh the pros. I lost the enjoyment of this sport cause of the coaches. I'd rather pursue weightlifting than feelin miserable and wasting my parent's money.

This helped man, fr thanks for opening up. ya def made the right choice 🤞🏽

Thanks big dawg you’ve helped me reach the decision I knew was inevitable but helped me before it was too late . Where I was dreading every practice and workout I kept going back in search of passion and it never sparked again in me it’s time to move on , get a job and lose some weight!!!

been playing this game all through middle school til’ my first year in high school. I just don’t have the passion for it.. I’m always anxious about it. I get the playing time, I get the reps, just don’t have a good feel for it. when I compare it to basketball, the sport I’ve played all my life, where I’m eager to get on the court.. ready to give it my all. really appreciate this video. helped make me feel better about my decision

Thanks for making this video, I’ve been watching your channel for awhile, and videos like these help me get through tough times in my own sports career. Keep up the good work coach!

I had to make that decision when I was out there working with you bro. Best decision I’ve made tbh. Stay up bro‼️

I don't play football but this spoke to me in my decision about my baseball career. Great video

This reallt helped me finalize things i been contemplating quitting since last year but didnt know what to do and i realized i cant do it no more and i hope others find the sign they need wether that be to stay or to leave.

this is the video that helped me the most man thanks for sharing your experience

This is a great video, I quit football my sophomore year. I started doing martial arts 🥋 because it’s something I was actually interested in. Football became a stressor for me.

yo man i been through it ALL, and yes highschool football has become a burden later on without me noticing but luckily i took action to make a change. im 17 and im gettin on all my credentials and gettin to that real money.

When you have a passion its gonna have its challenges but MOST importantly its supposed to be rewarding smh im sorry to hear this bro best of luck on your next endeavors

After years of playing football through pop Warner,middle school,into high school I lost passion and motivation not only was the game physically exhausting but mentally as well. Football was my everting until high school the hits became to much after pulling my hip flexor and almost needing surgery along with taking hard hits my body’s had enough. I feel like a 50 year old in a 16 year old body. After I quit my happiness spiked and I was enjoying life while perusing other passions such as hunting(family tradition). My advice for everyone is to do what makes you happy and not to what others want you to do quitting is not always bad I’ve lost freinds due to quitting but many stayed bc they understood why. Do what makes you happy even if others think you shouldn’t do it

Thank you for helping me make a decision.

Needed this video cause this my senior year and I been planning on quitting football because i dony enjoy anymore,,,,i start and everything but ever sense COVID hit,,,i haven't been feeling it,,,,,i been playing since 6th it's hard decision,,,,but i know in reality i got more important things to focus on

Looking at this video just after I had the convo with my coach. It’s time to walk away from playing. I did everything I could but I’ve went through hell with this sport from high school all the way through college. It’s draining and like you said when football is everything to you when something isn’t going right in practice or games it effects your personal life. Everyone has to walk away at some point. I played and did everything I could. But I was tired of being a rotational piece and putting in all this work for nothing. It’s been that way since high school and I haven’t had fun playing this game since sophomore year of high school. I just live for Saturdays. That’s it. It’s a toxic cycle that needs to come to an end so I can better myself. I’m looking into coaching. I love the X & O’s of football. But as far as playing I’m done and I’m glad I went out on my own terms. I played 6 games after transferring from another school that had no faith in me. I did great and it was the perfect way to go out. I needed this video thanks bro 🙏🏾

Thanks for the video I have been playing football since I was 7 and now I’m at my junior year but I lost interest in football. I have been going back and fourth and I think I’m deciding to quit

Your vid is legit 90% relatable bro

You definitely weighed every thing as you spoke of. Through prayer, patience, endurance, & hard work you held strong!! I'm so very proud of you!!!!

Thanks for the video man. I’ve only played one year of high school football but it’s just so hard to enjoy it. The coach’s and players take it so seriously it almost takes the fun out of it. I’m just not sure if I’m competitive enough to do it. It constantly stresses me out and I dread going to practices. I know if I quit I’ll just be disappointed in myself but I’m just not sure if I get enough enjoyment out of it

I used to be obsessed with football like it was my life it was all I thought about. I started in 7th grade so I started a lil late I’m currently a junior going into my senior season but I’ve had two back to back season ending injuries my sophomore and junior year and tbh I just don’t like the game anymore, it’s turned into more of a chore than a sport and I go lot more into lifting lately and lifting always makes me happy and I feel at peace whenever I lift. I also found more of a future in track, I have some of the best times on my high school track team right now and tbh I might just pursue track and lifting instead of football. The only reason I’m doing football for my senior season is because it’s senior year and I really don’t care what are record is.

As a person who grew up enjoying watching football,I thought it would be my dream sport of play. Started in jv, 7th grade- I loved it with all of my heart. 8th grade was where I opened my eyes however. I started to realize how badly I damaged my body and I started becoming anxious going to practice. Now, I worked my way up to varsity. The only real reason I play now is to use as an achievement to use in the offseason or when talking to people. While the sport made me tougher, I feel like if I just trained on my own I would feel way happier.

Im a female track sprinter in high school and I really want to quit my sport, it’s making me depressed and it’s hard to keep up with schoolwork. Track is also very physically demanding and I never have enough energy after practices to do homework or just live life in general. I also dread every single practice. I only started running just to get into SOMETHING for my school and when I realized I was good at it I stuck with it through my sophmore year. I am a junior now and I know for a fact I do not have a passion for this sport I only enjoyed my first year because of the friends I had on the team(they all moved away the same year). I want to quit but I am really scared of the judgement from my current coaches, they will think I am lazy and I would have to walk past them everyday knowing that I quit their team

This was well said famo 💯

I have played basketball my whole life, and now have decided to play football going into my Sophomore year. My problem is the passion for both sports. I don’t have a feeling to play anymore for both sports, and have a passion for something else. Although I am a great player for both sports, I just can’t handle the stress and anxiety from waking up to getting out their and doing drills, only to get yelled at if I make a mistake which makes me feel like I am not good enough. I do hope if I continue to play, that there will be better days ahead!

Should I quit mid season in my senior season I was starting but now I’m not, not because I was beat out but unfair chances, I don’t like practice and I’m not motivated. I also have a big job opportunity what do I do

I have been playing football since 4th grade and I am heading into my senior year. I have always worked extremely hard in football and it is a massive part of my life. I am about 5’6 and 167 pounds of muscle and have always been very fast and quick. My junior season went as terribly as it could have possibly went as I had went from battling for a starting spot at corner on varsity to a scout team wide receiver. My coaches replaced me with two people who had never played football until last season because I never grew like they thought I would. I was always the best db and corner my team relied on in my class. I did not start my junior year and got virtually no varsity playing time besides special teams. I had never felt so low in my entire life and I dreaded every single practice. In that offseason before I was extremely determined and worked harder than I ever had before. But after how last season went, I have no motivation anymore. I stopped going to workouts as soon as the season ended and my head coach called me in to talk to me three different times. He wanted me to switch to rb and be the second string as well as play all of the special teams. I have never played offense before and I would already be at a disadvantage in fighting for a spot behind the other 2 rbs in my class who have been playing offensive their whole life. I do not trust that I will actually get play time my senior year and I have been stressing for 5 months on whether or not I should play next year. The current football workouts have been interfering with my passion for weightlifting which I developed in the previous offseason and has now become a massive part of my life. I don’t know if I am going to regret not playing but I feel like life is too short to do things that don’t make me happy. Any advice on if it would be worth playing next season for me?

I been playin football since 6th grade and going into my sophomore year I’m really unmotivated to play. I’m always late/missing days of practice due to my mom schedule and I don’t blame her since she in nursing school but it sets me far behind and our team is at best first round playoffs. I only “enjoyed” football freshman year bc of the relationships with my teammates and even some coaches and working out. Not bc of the actual sport itself being fun. Now every workout and practice I think I could be doing something better with my time since I don’t need football to make it in life and I’m not a d1 caliber player. So rn I’m just in a slump but I don’t really get any pros for playing football and my homies in football are my dawgs so I not worried about losing them it mostly the relationships with my coaches bc they were very nice to me and have a good program. But I’m giving football a couple days just to see if I’m just in a slump rn

Thank you this helped a lot

This might not even get looked at but Watchin this and being at a crossroads on if I wanna keep playing basketball just opened my mind. 21 years old finishing my college freshman year(hs class of 2019) I wasn’t even enrolled in a school during covid year and didn’t go to school the year before. I had d1 interest from 1 school but played selfish when they came to the game forced a lot of shots just to get my average the coach told me I played no defense along with other complements with no offer, crushed me really did, everyone told me I’m good just go to juco and work didn’t want to cause I felt like I’m better than some of the dudes getting some of these offers in the same county as me I had the same mentality freshman year that you had your junior year and I don’t know if I want to quit and get a career but my love for the game is really holding me from these decisions this video helped me gotta sub off that alone 💯

I’m going into my senior year of high school and I’m thinking of quitting. I dreamed of going pro as a little kid but I get so nervous to not mess up and be the best that I end up not enjoying it and making a lot of mistakes.

I’m currently a junior, I will be a senior next fall, and I played for the first time I played football this year. I did it out of love for the game and I had always wanted to do it. I met a coach you to this day I’m grateful for who trained me and mentored me, and I thought I was prepared, but clearly I wasn’t ready at all. Idk if you know about the trinity league but it’s the hardest division of high school football in the country, so I didn’t really have a choice. Everyone is better than me, bigger, faster, stronger, etc, no matter how hard I tried, it was never good enough. I hated the season, being a 3rd string on jv, although I made some few friends and memories, idk if it’s enough. It gave me depression, which I still have, and I honestly can’t sleep at night trying to make a decision. I promised my personal coach I’d keep going and that I’d give it my all this off-season, but idk if it’s worth the sacrifice. I don’t wanna leave my senior year, my teammates, or my dreams, but idk if I can take it anymore. I quit baseball when I was in the 5th grade and it was my biggest regret, and I feel like it’s keeping me from quitting, same with my parents and all that they’ve done. I want to play football, but idk if I can make it happen, deep down I think I’ll always be a fan of the game, rather than a player, if you see this please give me your input, just stressing over this game.

I’ve been doing crew or rowing for a year. you may not know a lot about it but it is one of the most painful sports. This year i’ve gave it my all and was passionate. I worked really hard and did extra weightlifting on the side. Being at practice tho has gotten so painful and i feel like i have to show up and it’s not enjoyable. we been waking up at 4:30 for 5:30 am practices during the summer. It’s such a big part of my life but i don’t know what to do. i feel like my parents will be upset if i quit.

My anxiety would get so bad before practice in my freshman year. I remember me literally throwing up before practices because of the anxiety, knowing that we aren’t going to run plays, or hit. Instead we were going to condition, like we did every single practice. On top of that the head coach saw me and several others do very good in practice against the starters, however, the coach was, lets just say he didn’t play any white players except the one who’s mom brought in the food. I was sick of the coach, and the sport was ruined for me. I hated it so much after this, and I regret quitting now, but then it seemed so right. I just remember seeing all of the amazing players on the sideline and the trash players in the games. ESPECIALLY the O Line and D line. It hurts so bad every day, but it is what it is. All I can say for those who want to quit because of a certain coach, is if he is staying for a while then quit, if he’s not then stay. That simple, anyways have a blessed day ✝️❤️

freshmen year was my first time playing football I was not starting but I had a great time putting the working in with my teammates , sophomore I got more playing time but when spring season come that’s when I started to lose my passion for football I started feeling burnt out , I feel drained every time at practice , but when I watched this video I feel like is time to hang up my cleats so I quit the football team the next day , even though I disappointed my teammates and coaches I think it was a good decision I made .

thanks man this helped alot

I was first team all state in oregon and won a state championship, ended up going d3 because of a devastating leg break during quarterfinals senior year, the injury still affects me daily and makes practice hell. Also a scout team player now. Only reason I went to the school is for football and don’t know what I’d do without it.

I quit and I feel very wierd about it and kinda nervous and stressed but I fr hated playing. It’s moreso that I have been playing it my whole life not that I actually like it

I’m on the football team for my freshman year and I have no passion for it. I always anxiety from it and it sucks. And my mom is not letting me quit but she wants me to work harder in school and I think football will get in the way of that this year.

Hey man, I wanted to give you a story of mine. My family loves to play soccer, both my older sibilings have played soccer since they were young. I was no different. But I am now 16 yrs old and I start feeling like I genuinely want to quit playing soccer. I have gotten serious depression and anxiety throughout my youth. I remember I tried killing myself twice because I was almost always a scapegoat on my team for mistakes that happen and I felt like I let the team down. Despite me working hard, I kept getting the same mental problems. I tried to push through the problems but once in a while they do come back. It seems as though my enjoyment in soccer has long gone and I am doing soccer only to stay fit. In high school I have gained such a huge disdain for my teammates because a lot of their attitudes hinder our teams performance. I was a junior last year and I was a varsity benchwarmer that would occasionally play the games. Entering senior year I am considering quitting soccer despite my coach wanting to start me but I do not want to waste my year that makes me feel like I am wasting my time and instead actually start trying to find something I can do for the rest of my life because I am still young.

This is what I fear when I walk on and playing college ball I’m undersized but have the skills like a 6’3 DB, if ion get pt in college I’m having a job, I ain’t playing in heat which is 96 degrees in NC

About that time for me been playing division 1 college baseball for four years (got two left if I want them) and man I’m not seeing a future for myself in the game at this point and being 23 playing college sports it’s not fair to anyone in my life to keep going just to keep going. Like you said practices are awful (always have been but I’ve been doing them for 4 and a half years) and it’s effecting my outside relationships

Thx after watching this i quit my football team and all my after school clubs

This helped so much

How much I enjoy watching football, I just have mixed feelings playing it. I lack the motivation and it just pains for me if I leave, teammates and classmates will do anything to make you feel down and fill you up with regrets.

Thanks for the video. I decided I wanted to quit today when I realized I genuinely hated playing football and going through those dreadful practices. I'd come home and not wanting to do anything the next day. Do you have a preferred sentence I should say to my coach?

For me I’m just so much smaller then everyone else and last year in freshman I had the worst football experience I’ve ever had but it’s just so hard quitting because I’ve had a lot of good times playing but I gotta quit I just can’t do it anymore.

Man im telling you...I got removed Tendon on my pinky and jammed thumb also sprained wrist. Im 22 at my 3rd Prep school. Since 2020 i been having my prep schools cancelled on me. I have all the talent in the world. i finally decided that football is over and to save my fingers. As i wide receiver i need all those in the future. With that being said it hasnt been easy but just gonna keep going on. Hate to say but it feels alright that im not the only one going thru it.

Very smart guy. 👍🏻

Im just worried ill let the team down. I love football, its an amazing sport but im never excited to go play. i just dread checking the clock to see we had a game while i was just flushed from the week we just had in practice

Hey @thewalkoncoach I am 16 6’0 140-145lbs in my junior season i run a 5.0 40 most skill players on my team run around a 4.7-5.2. I feel as if my db coaches overlook me. I honestly feel like I should be starting. Last season I rode the bench and only play special teams now I am a scout team player fighting for a spot. I know for sure I am better then 2 of our starting dbs. I am hurt right now trying to play through hamstring and glute pain wich is affecting my speed even though I am already not that fast. Today i had a scrimmage I had a good amount of playing time on defense and racked up a couple tackles at saftey and olb at the varsity level. I spent this whole past off season in the weight room and running track wich I can say I definitely feel faster and stronger but I am still very undersized being 140lbs. I think it’s a shame that coaches preach about people working hard will get starting spots but they give those same players who never come to work outs starting spots. I feel like I can be doing something else rn like boxing. Boxing was my first sport my big brother is a boxer my dad is a boxing coach my nephews father is a pro boxer. I feel like I want to go back to the sport of boxing we’re I am most talented at. If I mix that with my good work ethic I can become a much better boxer then I will ever be a football player. Any advice or say on this????

I’ve been playing football since I was like 4 and I didn’t play a year or two because of covid but I was actually happy for this season but I’ve been playing a little bit as well but for a week now or so out of no where I just got hit with no motivation and just not happy playing in general but to be honest idk why I feel like this it just happened out of no where and I’m making the pros and cons and so far cons is wining what do you think I should do?

Dunno if you’ll read this my man but i’m heading into my junior year and i’m not playing anymore. Freshman year was excrutiating practice, but I got decent playing time being a second string safety. I was so hype for sophomore year I was lifting, eating, working harder than 80% of the team. Well season eventually comes and I don’t start JV. Coach starts 2 freshman over me. I was crushed bro, I still got to play but a quarter and a half a game wasnt enough. Coach started a freshman with terrible grades, put in no work, showed up late to practice over me. If he were better then me I would admit it, but he straight up wasnt. Now I realize that its not worth it if nothing i do can change what the coach thinks. I’m not a football player anymore, and it crushes me to say that.

Yo man I’ve been playing water polo since I was 8 and I’m in high school as a sophomore and I haven’t gotta to the level where I can be on varsity. I feel like I’ve been lying to myself that I can get better. If I really wanted to get better I would be on Var. Sometimes I don’t wanna go to practice and like the trash talk motivation around me doesn’t fuel me. I feel like I don’t have drive to the sport I play. Should I seek other sports. I wanna seek other interest in life including after highschool.

I'm a freshmen in Highschool, I've played football since I was 11. I don't like football, I'm not interested in it anymore; it brings me down even hearing about it. I weigh 215 lbs, I am 6' 1'. I have the potential. My mental focus just isn't in the right spot because of how much I don't like the sport. I don't care about the physical contact or anything like that, all I care about is the emotional stress it puts on me for playing when I don't care about it. When not caring about it, seems to me that my emotions just drag my muscle and my potential along on a rope in a basket during practice. 😔 Please help me make a decision to talk to my coach about quitting. I also am faced with getting to starting on D-line and coach waiting for me to get on the field..... BUT, I don't feel like football is for me. Help me make a decision, I'm looking up to people like you to help me figure this out! This video helps. I'd rather pursue bodybuilding/weightlifting instead of making my parents pay $1k a year.

I’ve been struggling really bad on making this decision recently, i played football as a freshman and I’m going into my sophomore year of football. I was actually going to play soccer freshman year because I like that sport and have a passion for it, but I love being on the same team as all of my friends and I thought football was cool because when I see the football team playing in front of a huge crowd against another town with a band playing music it seems so cool so I ended up giving football a shot this year. I love being able to push my self during practice and weight room, I don’t know if I love those things as much as I used to love playing soccer. I’ve been thinking about playing soccer my sophomore year, and I’m actually pretty good at soccer too. I don’t know if I will regret it. I just don’t know what I want more.

I'm going into my sophomore year. I rode the bench my freshman because I had nothing to offer. I fell in love with weight lifting. I did that all winter. Now practice started back up for about 2months. I have a chance to be a backup this year but I'm not having fun with football. I feel like skipping every practice. I don't know what to do

Man I just quit cuz I literally did not play and backups wouldn’t get any reps at practice so I was just wasting 3 hours of my afternoon. Now I can focus on lacrosse weightlifting and schoolwork but I’m still kind of regretting quitting even though I didn’t enjoy it

This year was my first year playing freshman football, from the start it has felt as nothing but a chore, I wasn't a horrible WR but not good either, so I get 0 playing time and got 0 chances to start during pratices, considering I was waisting 3 hours a day 6 times a week I quit, most of the football kids on my team hate me saying "you made a commitment" but they weren't my friends before so I don't really care. This was the first day after quitting and I feel as if it was the right choice, but ill still defiantly get bullied for quitting

I’ve played football since I was 9 years old I’m 22 now and been playin d1 in college going on my 5th year I have been a walk on at 2 different schools and haven’t had the best experience. I have an opportunity now to go and play on a scholarship at a d1 school and my dad has helped me a lot with getting this opportunity. At first we didn’t know exactly if I was gonna get put on a scholarship and my thing was I’m not going if I’m not gonna be on scholarship. But once they said I was gonna be on scholarship I still don’t really feel excited and passionate about going. I feel like my hearts just not in it and I can’t give it my all. My parents think I should at least go for the season and if I don’t like it be done but honestly like I said I’m just not passionate and feel like I’m burnt out from it. Do you think I would regret not giving my self one last chance to finally be on scholarship?

I quit sports for 2 years and came back my senior year and ended up being one of the fastest players on the team, I gave it my all and felt proud of myself for what I accomplished after being a bum for 2 years, now I'm going into wrestling, hoping I can find what I found in football, but its just not there, my dad is really excited already, and I don't want to let him down, I just hope coming back to football made him proud enough that he won't mind

I’ve been thinking abt quitting for a few weeks now and I finally did yesterday and all day today I can’t stop thinking abt it but i quit Bc yesterday We were at practice and doing hitting drills I ended up getting a tackle and landed on my hip wrong and it hurt to walk after that so I’m rly needing help now and don’t have anything to do anymore

I’m a senior in college and my basketball season ended. I have another year of eligibility due to covid. I have been in turmoil about taking that 5th year. regardless of what I do, my plan was to get my masters. I just have to decide on whether or not I want to play another year on top of a more difficult degree. I fear that I could miss out on having a positive influence on my team as a 5th year.. but I could barely hold myself together as a senior, and could not be a leader to any of my teammates.. i’m torn, because my mind and body are screaming at me to let it go and focus on academics and a career but I fear that I am stepping away from God’s plan for me. if I can’t pull myself together, then it would be best for me if I left.. still so torn but I might just be going crazy. been trying to make this decision for a year.

Even tho i play soccer i relate to this vid. I played my whole life basically and spent so much time on soccer. I just had my first season of college soccer as a freshman and ian feeling it no more. 2nd semester just started and im debating quitting and going back to my home state. The game dont feel fun no more I feel like I should just quit tbh.

Hey I’ve been in so much stress trying to decide if I’m going to do football my freshmen year because I’ve been playing football for a while now but I’m just dreading going to the summer training because we have to get up at 6 every morning almost and go lift and practice for hours and it just feels like I don’t have the passion to do that anymore and find something else to do in high school. I also only know a few people at the practice since most of them are juniors or seniors what would be good advice for this situation? Should I try to stick it out through the summer and freshmen year?

Dude football was absolutely my ENTIRE life for my first 14 years, everything my head would ever go through was related to football, I trained for like 14 hours a week in the off-season alone and now that I’m a sophomore and won the starting qb job I’m just so bored and want to compete in mma or something it’s crazy I get so annoyed when I’m at practice but I’m still playing only because of the coaches and teammates around me but I don’t expect to go back after this year

I been playing football for about 4 years now and during my Freshman season (this year) it felt like I was just waiting for the season to end. I am now on the fence if I want to signup again for next season because it feels like I lost love for the sport… My dad said if I quit football I have to get a job this summer. i’ve also began to get into soccer over the past 6 months but I feel like it would be too late to start and I’ve been overthinking my future in sports too much it feels…

Great advice. I'm in a predicament. I'm on 2nd string and I never get in, right? I want to work to be a starter so that I can play. The thing is, I don't even get practice time. I go to every single practice and all they do is put me on the side while they keep 1st string players on the entire time. I'm brand new, and I barely know how to do anything. I need the practice, but can never get it. I know that I am determined enough to be a starter, but I don't have the skills. I want it bad, but I doubt the coaches will ever change. I spend a whole period of the day, just to get treated like crap by my teammates for something I have little control over. I am considering quiting. What should I do?

For me its so hard right now cuz i qouit cuz of my teammates they keep saying how i suck and everythink but its so hard to qouit cuz i fell like i need to go to the practice

I was so bad at football my freshman and sophomore year and I’ve worked so hard extra work running everyday doing my db drills lifting and I feel like I hate practice it’s just not fun for me anymore but I feel bad quitting I feel like I worked so hard and people doubted me I wanted to prove them but I just don’t like football I like to lift I don’t enjoy the actual sport but my coach told me I could get a spot on var at db if keep working but I just don’t think it’s for me I’m really stressed

Hey man, I am a Freshman in high school and I will be a sophomore next year. I am 6'0 over 200 pounds and I wasn't utilized at all last year. I have lost the passion for football and it has come to the point where I don't even want to attend the meetings, the banquets, and even the damn strength & conditioning workouts before the season next year. I went to all of the workouts during the summer and I got no vacation. I worked really hard just to get on the team and instead I sat on the bench the whole year and never got playing time, this affected my concentration on school. I went to all of the practices while some starters didn't. Most of the games we lost were blowout losses, we barely won some of our games and our only dominant win was the last game. I have lost the motivation to play football and I have developed a passion for persuing boxing. Should I quit or should I keep going?

What’s good bro I’m 16 and from the uk and turn 17 in April 2021. I’m looking to become a walk on for college football but I don’t when I need to go. If you could answer that would be great

i tried playing football for the first time on the jv team and after the 4th practice i was basically dreading going and praying that practice was over the entire time, i realized then that it wasn’t for me.

So i started at 5 and i ended up quiting at 11 but im 13 now and i wanna play football again but like i wanna play till 18 then quit but i already had a couple of concussions so idk if i should play again

Hey I really liked the video. I want your opinion. I was just told yesterday by my head track coach that I wouldn’t be able to do shotput because I never have thrown in my life and not even giving me the chance to even try out for the throwing team. He told me I still need to work on my running which is odd because I’ve never seen anyone run to throw shotput. He said there’s already 7 guys on the team out of 10 but he’s waiting for 3 other football players to come throw for him. It made me really mad. Do you think I should leave the track program?

I wanna quit football but all I’m thinking is what others would think because I played for a year and I thought it was great but now it’s like it’s not fun no more but like I wounder what others would think like why would you quit and all of that and all I want to play is baseball and I have surgery in one month from now so like it’s fine

I've been thinking about quitting since last season, I dread going to every practice it's even to the point where I get really anxious an hour or so before practice. I'm not sure if it's too late to quit because I'm already in athletes pe with the football team and our season starts in 2 weeks, but idk if I can finish out this season, it's already making my pre-existing depression worse.

But when I think of quitting I feel like I’m not worth it to my family or to life I don’t know what to do without it and that’s what’s stressing me from quitting it and the fact that I’m a freshman and never going to experience the high school football dream but my 8th grade year ruined it and before my freshman started it was to stressful to start but now I feel useless I don’t know what to do

The football program at my school is garbage, and I really like basketball and am really good at it. I tried a bit of football and my schools program for it is garbage. We practice 3 and a half hours everyday then 2 2 and a half hours on weekends. And if I play this season it will get in the way of my basketball camp which is what I’m best at. Should I just maybe play next year if the program is better and just not play this year?

Should I quit football. I’ve been hating practice and I’ve felt nervous and anxious and not having fun everything about it. whenever I do something else that’s outside of football I have an better time then playing football. even tho I worked my ass off being a starter I just felt like I still have that feeling of not wanting to play.🙁

I'm going through the same thing with basketball. I've been playing since i was like 6 and i just feel like I'm wasting my time last season I was depressed asf and dreading practices and games. I don't know what imma do.

Now I feel like I'm fucked up everything after my 10th grade I choose football and my high secondary and college to become a pro but in these years I suffered a lot I just lost the love for the game passion the love changed to hate now I have 1and half year more to finish the college and I'm praying time to go fast I don't want this anymore it's full of toxic environment i feel like I forgot to enjoy my life by chasing behind this dream I'm depressed maahn!

Hello. I am trying to stick with the theme, but add my son's own story, and hopefully I can get a few comments from others. My son is in the 11th grade. He's been a dedicated but average hockey player since he was 4 years old. He is now 16 and can play organized hockey for just a few more years. He enjoys going to pro baseball, hockey and football games and we've been to quite a few from Atlanta to Montreal. For the last three years he has been playing catholic high school football. He has purposely not tried to find an after school job because of this. In the first year of football he played cornerback every game. In the second year he played every game except the last two, which were the most important ones of the season. This year he has played a few minutes out of three games. He goes to every practice, paid his hundreds of dollars, and the coaches run their business. They tell the kids no one will be cut as long as you go to practice. What that really means is that they want as many kids as possible to pay up but they will still only play their 15-20 favourites. I've been going to the games and there are plenty of kids who play the entire game. They have a position on offence and defence. And, there are many who don't get to play at all. They can tell everyone they are on the team, but may not be in a single play. Now, some say if you quit you are letting your team down. The big shots don't even know who the bench warmers are, so I don't believe in that. He wants to play but the coaches have complete control. With his hockey, he plays at least 21 games and his coach values him. He's always there 40 minutes before game time and they often play during the week, when he also has football practice. I support him leaving the football scam to focus on hockey only. What if he gets hurt in football practice and misses most of the hockey season? I don't have respect for coaches who do this to a player after three years. You can say that maybe he's not good enough, but he has made interceptions and even caught lame punts. He has never screwed up and cost his team points. Thanks for reading.

we got a new hs football coach and he was in the army so he’s hardcore. I tore my meniscus and he was telling me that he’s had kids play through that to get me to still play and i literally couldn’t

Last year was my first year playing football as a freshman, we didn't have enough players so instead of having a freshman team we became the JV team and we were just basically hitting dummies for the varsity. We only won one game last year and today was the first day of 2-a-days for me and I just don't have that love of playing football as much as watching it. I'm deciding weather to pull the plug or just stick it out like I did last year when I dreaded it and focus on baseball which is my passion and I love the most, thanks for the video

I've been boxing for 6 years now, and after losing my first fight, I won my second. But after I won my second, I didn't react the way I thought i would react. After winning, I felt no emotional what so ever. It didn't feel as if I had achieved something. It was like I was fighting to not lose rather than win.

Hey man i am 16 and have playd soccer for nearly 9 years and I love the sport but for the last 4 months i have hated it. It hasn’t been as fun as it used to and all my friends have quit and started the gym and I want to do it to.

I wanted to quit halfway through this season because I poured my heart into this team only for them to bench me the whole year over 8th graders We went 0-12

I’m a senior this year and was barley getting any reps because I’m small. I also just didn’t have a good time at practices, everyday I didn’t wanna go and would just be waiting for practice to end. I just quit about a month ago. It was a really though decision, but it was best for me. I still keep contemplating whether I made the right choice or not.

I have been playing soccer at a club with breaks for 9 years. I'm almost 16 years old and a year ago I suddenly became obsessed with becoming a professional soccer player. I watched a lot of motivational videos on tiktok and youtube. I have practiced a lot. But now it has occurred to me that I will not become a professional soccer player. Also at the start of the new season a week ago it turned out that most of my teammates changed clubs and we will not be registered to play and I will have to play with adults. I am now at a point where I can change club, play with adults or quit the club. I ruled out a club change. And now I don't quite know what to do. I enjoy watching football on TV and cheering for teams, but I'm afraid that by failing to become a professional footballer, I will not enjoy watching the sport and cheering for the teams. Probably, I will quit playing for the club and accept the fact that I will not become a professional footballer. I will start going to the pool, school volleyball or start a school soccer team because I like playing with my friends. You think I'm making the right decision? and do you think I will not lose the pleasure of playing with my friends and watching this sport on TV?

I love everything about football but my coach bullies and picks on me for no reason, even though I do everything he tells me to and extra, I'm about to give up bruh

Thank you bro I’m a rower and I’m thinking about weather or not I should quit.

I know my comment is late I’ve been playing hockey for 11 years Ive always loved playing but the last 6 months I’ve hated it I put it in the work and effort I’m playing Double AA but I just lost passion I still like the game its that I lost my love and I think have actual depression for continuing.

It say that in high school football if u join u can’t leave the sports for one year