• Teammates
• It's taken up three years of my life.
• I have to go out swinging.
• I have to prove him wrong.
• I don't want to let my teammates down.
• I don't want to let myself down.
• Life without football? Is there even?
• The prestige, the glory.
• In spit of everything that has happened, football makes me happy.
• College Football
• I like winning.
• I love the game.
• It fulfills me.
• I like having my name on a jersey.
• I have something to prove to myself.
• I've poured too much blood, sweat and tears into this to give up now.
• I don't quit.

These are my 17 Reasons. -- Note as of 2013:

• Previously private
• I wrote this in high school when I did almost quit the football team. I eventually quit college football.
  • So yeah.