Sports In Everyday Life

Sports In Everyday Life

The American basketball player and head coach at the University of California at Los Angeles, nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood once said - "Sports do not build character they reveal it”

A healthy mind and a healthy body are prerequisites for great achievers. History shows that young individuals who excelled in the field of sports could prove their worth in the battlefield as valiant soldiers in later life and get the laurels of victory.

 Sports are an exciting source of recreation. They instil a sportive spirit to take up the heavy burden of life. It aids in maintaining health and physical fitness and foster team-spirit and impart a sense of discipline and value of time, how it is important that even a fraction of second decides the outcome of a competition. Sports are the right avenues to channelize energy and vitality for students and make their leisure hours worthwhile. The spirit of competition is inculcated along with enhancing physical fitness. The greatest educational value of the sports is to provide stimulation for study and for hard work to meet the challenges in future life.

Sportspersons are more disciplined, cheerful, optimistic, cooperative, accommodating and Samaritan than others. Sports teach us to deal effectively with failure. Physical activities also provide an outlet for the surplus energy. Sports should be balanced with academic pursuits.

Nelson Mandela is quoted to have said “Sport has the power to change the world… it has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than the governments in breaking down racial barriers.”