blog #5 favorite movie
My favorite movie is Rocky. Rocky Balboa a.k.a. the Italian Stallion is a no name boxer with very little money who has been chosen to fight the Heavyweight World Champion boxer Apollo Creed. Balboa trains hard working day and night preparing to fight Apollo Creed. Rocky brings back memories of when I was young and my great Uncle Buck would drive down from Washington State in his motor home every summer to see me. He and I would sit in the RV on days of bad weather and watch movies but Rocky was the first. Every since then when he visits we spend time together watching Rocky. Rocky starting at the very bottom and ending up the World Champion has inspired me to work hard to achieve my goals and to never give up even when under almost unbearable amounts of stress. Rocky has changed the way I look at obstacles I face in life. For example last year I got a concussion during the first scrimmage of my high school football carrier. When I came back five weeks later I was out of shape and ...