Progress always involves risks.  You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.  ~Frederick B. Wilcoxd. If you never take those risks to strive forward you will always stay at the same place and you will always have to rely on someone to get you moving forward you always have to make good ricks so they can help you move on in life.  Life is all about ricks if you don’t take the risks you will probably never get where you want to go with your life however you have to take the smart risks of life not the bad ones that will make you go to jail or something like that.  If you take negative risks that will just make you go to jail or it will put you in the hole. If you do take the life of taking risks and you go to jail or you get killed or you kill someone you will live a life of regret and you will maybe not even want to live any more. However I am telling you to take the good risks, risks that may involve you in sports or risks that will help you reach your dreams.  Think of me when I was in the 9th grade I took the risk off going to play for a club team that was one of the best ones in the state I risked me not making it to the team and my old coach not wanting me back on the other team if I didn’t make it on that club team.  But I took the rick any way and I made it on the team because I knew that I was capable of making it on the team you always have to ask yourself  “can I actually do this” then you will know if you are really capable of doing what you are striving for in your life or whatever you are dreaming to be in your lifetime.