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Thread: do you regret not becoming a pro athlete?

post 1694649933 12-10-2023, 05:17 AM
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do you regret not becoming a pro athlete?

if only our dads pushed us a little harder

if only we were low inhibition enough to buy those PEDs as a teen

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post 1694649973 12-10-2023, 05:19 AM
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Definitely but rotator cuff surgery cut my college career short.
post 1694650003 12-10-2023, 05:20 AM
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post 1694650073 12-10-2023, 05:23 AM
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Not really

Taking PEDs for 2 decades straight and not having a guarantee that you will be good enough is a huge ass risk.
I mean with sports, you are either superrich or a peasent in some shyt league that nobody knows about
post 1694650293 12-10-2023, 05:31 AM
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I skipped college after high school to focus on becoming a professional wrestler but like most i never let those dreams leave my front door . I regret not going to wrestling school and never getting a WWE tryout at all!

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post 1694651183 12-10-2023, 06:03 AM
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No chance I could have in the sport I wanted. Hockey in NC isn’t a strong place to get through elite ranks. I’d have had to move to CT and live with family to get a look from schools that would have been worth it, if I were even good enough.

So, no. I never really tried either though, it was always “it’d be cool if” but it’s expensive and my parents didn’t have a lot of money so no chance out of the gate.
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post 1694651263 12-10-2023, 06:07 AM
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Regret... Like most people even had a choice in the matter.

Pro athletes won the genetic lottery. Thats their starting base/advantage.
post 1694651283 12-10-2023, 06:08 AM
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It's funny how standards are dropping in education/academia, civil services, and even the military but exacting standards remain in professional sports. No such thing as Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion when it comes to pro-league sports.
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post 1694651453 12-10-2023, 06:15 AM
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I was a good baseball player, but even with all the PEDS in the world I’d not have reached a pro level.

I play golf now. And it’s probably even more the case lol but who knows since I didn’t start at like 4 years old.
post 1694651613 12-10-2023, 06:21 AM
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Athleticism is genetic. You could take any amount of drugs in the world and it still wouldn’t make you an athlete.
post 1694661763 12-10-2023, 10:51 AM
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Of course not. I was terrible at sports as a kid. I could throw a ball and catch and stuff so I was ok at little league but thats about it. Lots of kids were like that.

Also was lazy and arrogant so it was hard to tell me to do anything, still is. Obviously training and practice and all that were not a thing for me, neither was school.

I didnt really get into working out until my 40's.

I could however throw a football a quarter mile and if coach would have put me in that last game, things might have been different.
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post 1694662003 12-10-2023, 10:55 AM
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I never would have been able to.

It was not written in my story. No amount of ambition or pushing when I was younger could have been enough to compensate for my lack of natural ability.
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post 1694662773 12-10-2023, 11:07 AM
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I could have went pro into what realistically would have been a mid level MLS soccer career.

Probably wouldn't have been worth it, I'm 35 now so I'd be nearing the end of my career.

MLS is barely popular now, back then players salaries were dogchit.

My youth coach worked for the metrostars/redbull and his son went pro into the MLS and didn't last very long.
post 1694662953 12-10-2023, 11:11 AM
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100% my dad should have whooped my ass for quitting srs. I would have been the best outfielder and wide receiver in history of sports. I have hand-eye coordination of the gods srs.
post 1694663003 12-10-2023, 11:13 AM
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100%. They actually called me CP50 on the court for good reason.
post 1694663263 12-10-2023, 11:18 AM
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I had potential and went to national competitions competing against college guys preparing for the NFL draft as a high school athlete. Won the entire competitions a couple times. But made bad decisions when I was young
post 1694663723 12-10-2023, 11:29 AM
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Still, even one of my friends played the tour and told me stories about how women were playing injured so they could make enough money to pay for their next flight to the next tournament.

It doesn't sound as glamorous as it is at the top.
post 1694663953 12-10-2023, 11:35 AM
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I never had the making of a varsity athlete.
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post 1694664023 12-10-2023, 11:37 AM
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If you didn't have the natural talent to make it to a top D1 school peds wouldn't have helped. Shockingly dumb thread
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post 1694664243 12-10-2023, 11:42 AM
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What if you start at a very early age?

Brock Lesnar did push ups, sit ups, weights, heavy cardio since he was age 6.

It doesn’t have to come god given?

Brock Lesnar to this day does push ups with 3 chairs because since he was 8 the floor just isn’t deep enough for him. With 3 chairs Brock can go deeper and the floor isn’t stopping him. He jogs with a log on his back that weights 200 lb !
post 1694664393 12-10-2023, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted By MustardTiger17⏩
If you didn't have the natural talent to make it to a top D1 school peds wouldn't have helped. Shockingly dumb thread
Agreed, same applies to NFL really. I played college ball and really the only dudes taking chit had no chance of being drafted. They were hoping to get a chance to walk into an NFL training camp. If you can't get drafted without hopping on, then you are probably gonna have a hard time making it. The skill set, frame, and speed need to be there regardless. Obviously gear will help, but it's not gonna launch you from undrafted to mid round pick as a prospect.
post 1694664673 12-10-2023, 11:52 AM
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The same miscers that could have been navy seals could have been professional athletes
post 1694664773 12-10-2023, 11:55 AM
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You could be the most amazing athlete at whatever sport and rip your ACL in practice before your career ever took off then its over for you.

So nobody can "guarantee" they could have been a pro athlete.

Also that is why its a good decision for these guys to skip college sports and go pro from highschool if they got a fat contract dangling in front of them. Imagine playing college sports for nearly "free" and getting a career ending injury before you signed for the NBA.
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post 1694665543 12-10-2023, 12:13 PM
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Nah, pro sports are dumb srs

Would be nice to have the money without having to play the game tho
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How delusional is the average normie, that they think they could be part of the 0.000000001% group of people that plays pro sports, if only they trained hard and did enough PED's.

LMAO
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Lol my dad was a NFL linebacker I was a fat kid so I had to play defensive and offensive lineman ****ed up my knees and my left foot smh couldn’t do anything for years and by then I was already in high school and started doing dumb **** and started smoking and hanging out with bad influences
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Ive got slight rickets from a lack of nutrition growing up are you taking the piss ?

It wasn’t my fault my mum was a brain dead idiot
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tbh i wish i had went special forces or something risky . i fuked up my knee though at 22
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Meh, yes and no. The only sports I excelled at don't pay a lot of money to the pros anyway ("futbol" and rugby)
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