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Athletes As Role Models | Jonathan L | TEDxYouth@LCJSMS


welcome 2017
good evening before I really get into my
speech I would like everyone here to
think of their ideal role model is this
person athlete an artist a singer a
dancer or a family member
let’s just say they are an athlete or
celebrity then you are on the right
track of my speech and if in fact they
are an athlete would you still look up
to them like you do if they weren’t an
athlete all right no has anyone in this
room ever wondered how can these
athletes or players be so amazing well I
believe that as humans that watch TV and
see these athletes every day of our
lives we are expected to love and look
up to other humans that can’t pay more
money on national television and most
importantly play sports but why do we
look up to this athletes like we do and
should we even be looking up to those
athletes because they’re good at sports
or should you really be judging who they
are as people when we look up to this
athletes like we do these athletes are
now considered role models for the
purpose of my speech my definition of a
role model is someone you can always
trust will be there no matter what and
when these people get upset they come
right back up proving they’re haters and
doubters wrong just by proving more than
anybody ever thought they could do in
the first place a prime example of this
is with Michael Jordan’s amazing playoff
appearance when he had the flu
Michael scored an amazing 38 points and
led his team to play a victory all with
the flu Michael Jordan is an amazing
role model but our other athletes such
as Odell Beckham jr. LeBron James or
maybe even Terrell Owens actually good
role models that kids and adults should
be looking up to for a great example
after my research I have found that
these athletes are not what some may
think athletes can be kind competitive
and nice all of the time but then you
can have the athletes that do drugs
break the rules no matter what always
everywhere there’s a middle ground in
this case the middle ground is a kind
competitive person who is human so they
can break the rules and can yell
sometimes but in the end will always be
the person that you can trust after my
research I have held an interest on what
some of the other people thought about
my topic so I decided to hold a survey
with 50 participants to assist on my
research and ultimate decision on if
these athletes are actually good role
models with this I’m proving more that
would being a normal person you can look
you can look up to the humans that get
paid more money and that act and play
sports more than you do I also had a
spreadsheet with this spreadsheet I had
all the athletes I researched and all
the traits that I researched each of my
10 traits correlated to the same seven
athletes intelligence good sport kind
determined self-confident good leader
and calm when I was done with the
spreadsheet I ranked all the athletes to
see who was the best role models now
when I was writing the speech I didn’t
quite know Tiger Woods was going to be
charged with a DUI so at this time I
thought Tiger Woods was going to be a
great role model for example Tiger Woods
his best quality was determination Tiger
could be your best determination role
model as long as you love Tiger Woods
and you also aren’t determined now I
believe that I am weaker in the good
sport category and I need to look from
my best fitting role model Michael
Jordan Michael Jordan is my best fitting
role model with the highest amount of
points of 156 point 3 to 5 points
Michael also had an outstanding 21
points in the good sport category only
proving that he is my best fitting role
model
also there’s a thought that your role
model has to be in the sports team of
the of the area that you live in this is
not true at all let’s just say that you
are the biggest Steph Curry thing in the
whole world and you hate LeBron James
but you also aren’t determined LeBron
James can fill that quality of
determination and can show you how to
become more determined if the 50,000
minutes he’s played in his whole career
or the 300,000 seconds where maybe the
300 million milliseconds doesn’t prove
that then maybe you should look for a
good sport or a kind athlete instead
finally I would like everyone in this
room to think of one person they can
trust to be their role model someone
that will always be there for you and
someone that will fill the qualities
that you don’t have thank you for
listening and participating in my speech
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