Motivational Speech

Whenever I hear the phrase "public speaking" the most familiar example to me would be a motivational speech. A type of speech that either a captain, player or a coach would give to the team to either prepare or motivate them. I personally was able to find a motivational speech most familiar to be because I have played numerous amounts of sports in recent years and have heard many motivational speeches, and even gave my fair share of them. Whenever my boys needed motivation I was there to feed it to them. Simple phrases and sayings such as "lets go," "pick it up," or even "play hard" was enough to get the wheels turning for them. I played soccer the past four years of high school and watched coaches and leaders provide speeches to get us going for three of those years. When my senior year rolled around I knew that it was my time to take over with the speeches and either prepare or motivate the team. Before each half of every game we would huddle up and talk as a team. That is where I would put my public speaking talents to the test. For a few games we either came out fired up in the first half or bounced back in the second half. Although I will never truly know for sure if my motivational speeches were the cause of it, however I like to believe that they were. It felt nice to be the one that the team looked towards for motivation and for hope.