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Spinning at the Seams

Antonia Romanit has what many call the perfect life. She's got great friends, a loving mother, three great sisters, a popular brother, and to top it all off she thinks she starting to fall for the new kid. But what happens when life starts to get not so perfect? What happens when her life starts going in a new direction?
  1. Chapter 1
    “It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.” -J.J. Bentley
  2. Chapter 2
    “The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition”. -Nick Seitz
  3. Chapter 3
    “The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.”
  4. Chapter 4
    “My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging” 
-Hank Aaron
  5. Chapter 5
    “Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.” 
-Magic Johnson 

  6. Chapter 6
    “You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge”. -Damon Runyon 

  7. Chapter 7
    “Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.” -Ray Knight
  8. Chapter 8
    “To be prepared is half the victory”. -Miguel Cervantes
  9. Chapter 9
    “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” -Satchel Paige
  10. Chapter 10
    “The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.” 
-O.J. Simpson
  11. Chapter 11
    When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winner’s circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in
  12. Chapter 12
    “You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.” 
-A J Kitt 

  13. Chapter 13
    “You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.” 
-A J Kitt
  14. Chapter 14
    “How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser”. 
-Lou Holtz
  15. Chapter 15
    “There's no substitute for guts”. 
-Paul Bear Bryant
  16. Chapter 16
    “There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” 
-Pat Riley
  17. Chapter 17
    “When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.” 
-Bill Shoemaker 

  18. Chapter 18
    “It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” 
-Muhammad Ali
  19. Chapter 19
    “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”
-Joe Paterno
  20. Chapter 20
    “The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.” 
-George Shultz
  21. Chapter 21
    “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that 
whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” 
-Vince Lombardi
  22. Chapter 22
    “I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.” 
-Gale Sayers
  23. Chapter 23
    “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” 
-Bo Jackson
  24. Chapter 24
    “What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.” 
 -Terry Bradshaw 

  25. Chapter 25
    “Before you can win a game, you have to not lose It.” 
-Chuck Noll
  26. Chapter 26
    “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” 
-Babe Ruth
  27. Chapter 27
    “The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” 
-Steve Young
  28. Chapter 28
    “To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” 
-Tony Dorsett
  29. Chapter 29
    “I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always 
been able to leave the game at the arena.” 
-Charles Barkley 

  30. Chapter 30
    “You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.” -Joe Paterno
  31. Chapter 31
    “If you don't do what’s best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.” 
-Julius Erving