When you're body has reached its limit and you almost give up and walk away, but your heart, and mind crave for perfection and you keep going "Just a little bit longer", That's dedication, commitment and 10,000 HOURS JEEZ
According to Van Looney Toon, to achieve a standard/ skill level adequate to play at an international level, you need to have played 10000 HOURSSSS of whatever sport like trained and all that.
So do the maths, if you play 24/7 WHICH YOU WONT, that's 416 days
If you play/train 2 hours a day, that's 13.something years!!! Jeez.
Now I regret quitting hockey. If I had continued, by the time I'm in year twelve, according to those numbers, some miracle would've made me a state level player coz im too shit to play national anyways. BUT that would've been cool too.
Geez. I'll be sure not to make that mistake with kids of the future. Seriously I'm gonna get my baby cousins started on soccer or volleyball ASAP and make sure they NEVER quit, well at least until they're fifteen. Geez/Geez/Geez.