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More Than "Just an Athlete"


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One thing that I have always loved about sports is the great life lessons that can be learned while engaging myself in them.  It is my personal opinion that this is the reason why people should take sports seriously.  Not for the winning itself, but for the mental and emotional resilience gained through battling against adversity in the sporting environment.  Setting sports aside, there are many ways to come to know how to deal with lives predicaments and still “keep your head in the game”.

Tim Tebow is one who seems to have this game of life figured out.  He has managed to not only keep his family tradition of spirituality alive in his own life, but has made it one of his most conspicuous characteristics in the mosaic of his personality.  From motivational and key note speaking, to writing books, to traveling around the world performing service projects in third world countries—Tim Tebow undoubtedly has his eyes set on the big picture.

Tim Tebow uses sports to support his greater causes instead of using “greater causes” to magnify his athletic ability.

In an interview with a writer from the Washington Post, Tebow said “Anything that I’ve ever done is to love God and to love people, so I’m not going to think about someone else’s perspective or their dislike for me. In spite of that, I still want to love them because we’re all loved by the God of this universe. And that’s something that I want to take that love he gives me and love every single person, regardless of how they feel about me.”


One Tim Tebow fan stated it very well when they said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune “He’s not just an athlete.”  

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