Throw Like A Girl Analysis

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Throw Like a Girl Everyone should strive to throw like a girl. Throwing like a girl means believing in yourself, striving to do your best, and balancing daily life. According to Jennie Finch: believing in yourself means to do what you think is right no matter what, striving to do your best means to always try your hardest in every little thing that you do and balancing daily life means to make priorities and focus on them. My favorite chapters are one, three, five, and nine. They are my favorite because they are great life lessons. Chapter one is about a time when Jennie Finch’s first travel softball coach told her she couldn’t be a championship pitcher. That coach telling her that she couldn’t be a championship pitcher gave her an extra …show more content…

She is my role model because she set high expectations for herself and achieved her goals. In her book there is a chapter about setting goals. She says that it is good to have big goals, but you also need to have achievable goals. An example of an achievable goal would be to get a hit that gets you on the base in a game. An example of a big goal would be to play division one softball. Some of Jennie’s goals that she set did come true. But, it wasn’t a walk in the park. She had to work very hard to achieve her goals. Goals are something that you are working hard for and are always trying to achieve. Some of her goal that she achieved were being a championship pitcher, being the number one pitcher in the nation, and playing softball for team USA. Jennie Finch’s most famous quote is “Dream big and believe in yourself.” This quote is a reminder to all of us that our dreams are never too big and we can doing anything if we believe in ourselves. Another inspirational quote by Jennie Finch is “All you can control is your attitude and your effort.” This quote is important to me because you can’t have a bad attitude because the call didn’t go your way. You have to embrace it and make the next play or pitch so they have to call it your

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