Nowadays a lot of people dreams about sport career . In this essay I try to describe advantages and disadvantages of being a professional sportsman. One major advantage of being professional sportsman is that you could earn a lot of money. For example Floyd Mayweather Jr. for fight with Manny Pacquiao got two hundred fifty millions dollars per night. Obviously high incomes are only when you are very famous sportsman. Second important thing is that you have healthy and muscled body. What is more you can inspire a lot of people for great actions . In addition to that you have opportunity to make a lot of good things in humans life. However, being a professional sportsman has also some disadvantages. The main disadvantages is very high risk of injury. A lot of great sports career ruined by sports injury or disease which are connected with some kinds of sports. For example awesome boxer Muhammad Ali now has terrible life because of Parkinson’s disease. Another quite important disadvantage is that , you do not have free time . If you are professional sportsman you had to train a lot and you see your friends and family only a few times in season. What is more you must have special diet and it can be frustrating because you eat only healthy food what is not always tasty . In conclusion I think that being a professional sportsman has as many benefits as drawbacks but in my opinion sport career is amazing thing what everybody secretly dreams about. I know also that we are not immortal so sport achievements can give us glory for