You can apply this approach to any activity, or work experience. If it’s football, try to pick a quality that you developed: leadership, aggressiveness, finesse, timing, whatever set you apart in that activity. If you did volunteer work, mention the organization, but quickly go into one specific task that you did and what quality you learned while doing it. If you volunteered with seniors, for example, talk about how you learned how to run the Bingo game at the senior center, and had to deal with grumpy old people, and what you learned about them and yourself in the process. (The quality you are talking about it patience, and overall social skills. I stole this example from one of my current tutoring clients who wrote a brilliant little piece about this exact topic. She threw in how they would shout at her to talk louder, “Speak up, young lady!” And even rudely questioned why she brought in a Starbucks coffee.)