What is so important about sport?
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Sportsman Spirit, Mental Strength, Aim etc.\n\n"I 've missed 9000 shots in my career. I 've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot & missed! I've failed over & over & over again in my life..\n\nAnd thats why I succeed !\n\n- Michael Jordan "
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The most important game is the mental game. If the U.S. can win the mental game, they will win the games on the pitch.
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football is a form of entretainment that surpases all american sports because of the global reach it has. Just like the Olympics, the world cup uses nationalism to make millions of dollars.. but the most important thing is with football countries dont have to fight a war or kill each other.. they can play this and the whole world can watch\n\nI only watch football when is this big.. I have a favorite club, but I feel a lot more compelled to watch a game for my country rather than my favorite club
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Team sports are nice because you work with a team, you make friends, and build great characteristics. Individual sports are nice because you don't relay on anyone to do anything, you can do it yourself. You can make yourself better but not the entire team. and your trophy is yours, no sharing.
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Its very simple because its the best sport in the world
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Hardwork and dedication are necessary definitely. Soccer is not simply kicking a ball back and forth but it is a science that needs to be understood properly in order to become professional at it. Training and discipline are also very important, since an indisciplined player will always find himself in trouble with referees and other players thereby casting a negative shadow on that persons career as a professional.
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it's extremly important to follow direction that are given by experienced people. they usualy know what works and doesnt and have been there before. A lot of people make the mistake of not listening or trying their own way to get better yet they often waste years of their lives doing this.\n\nhaving self discipline in any sport is extremly important as well because if you dont push yourself to be the best, nobody else will! you have to work hard to get anywhere in life, because if you dont, someone else will.\n\nim not sure about integrity, but surely that most count for something
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ETHICS & SPORTSMANSHIP  Talk About It...\nClick here to go to the FORUM discussion group at CHARACTER COUNTS! ... Enliven a discussion, or start a new one, about sportsmanship and coaching for character.\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n   \nMORE ON CC! SPORTS\n\nTwo-day PVWH Centification Training\n\nOne-day PVWH Summits\n\nThe Arizona Sports Summit Accord\n\nStrategies for Implementing the Accord\n\nAccord Signatories:\nNational Organizations\nOrganizations (by state)\nColleges (by division)\nDiv. 1A (by football conf)\nIndividual Endorsements\n\nThe T.E.A.M. game plan\n\nCompilation of sports codes of conduct organized by the Six Pillars of Character \n  ETHICS\n\nEthical Considerations Pervade Every Aspect of a Coach's Behavior\n\nAny act that can be evaluated in terms of moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and good sportsmanship has ethical significance.\n\nEverything a Coach Says or Does Sends a Message About Values. Coaches are often the most influential adults in the lives of youngsters and adolescents. What they say and don't say, do and don't do - on and off the field - sends a message about values and reveals something about the coaches' priorities and character. Thus, coaches must always ask themselves: "What message am I sending?"\n\nEthics Is Not Always Simple. Though many people trivialize discussions of ethics in sports as if knowing and doing the right thing were a simple matter, in fact, it is enormously complicated at times, and it takes extraordinary vigilance and a strong character to perceive and properly deal with all the ethical opportunities and obligations that arise in coaching. Thus, when it comes to ethics, you don't have to be sick to get better.\n\nA Good Coach. A good coach is not only a competent coach but a good person who is dedicated to using the sports experience to help others become better people and citizens as well as better athletes. A good coach consciously strives to live up to the highest standards of ethics and sportsmanship.\n\nWhat Is Ethics?\n\nEthics refers to moral principles of duty and virtue that define what is right and wrong and prescribe how we should behave to be good and honorable.\n\nDuty and Virtue. The dual concepts of duty and virtue suggest both a minimal, mandatory aspect of ethics (duty) and an realm of special moral excellence that goes beyond what is required (virtue).\n\nDuty. In sports, duty refers to the minimal expectations embodied in core ethical principles. According to the Arizona Sports Summit Accord these principles are the "Six Pillars of Character" - trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good citizenship. It is, therefore, unethical to violate these standards of duty by being dishonest, disrespectful, irresponsible, unfair, uncaring or ignoring requirements of good citizenship.\n\nVirtue. Virtue refers to a special degree of moral excellence above minimal ethical requirements. A person of character should aspire to be virtuous and virtuous conduct is highly commendable, but a person is not unethical for failing to go above and beyond his or her moral duties.\n\nExamples of Virtue\n\n1936 Olympic Games. Luz Long: In the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, Hitler said, "Americans ought to be ashamed of themselves for letting their medals be worn by Negroes. I myself would never shake hands with one of them." Jesse Owens, the great American track and field star had already embarrassed the German dictator by winning gold medals in the sprint and relay. But in his first two attempts at the long jump he stepped over the foul line. He recalls being scared stiff that he would foul on his third attempt and not make it to the finals. His fiercest rival in the event was Luz Long, the German athlete. Despite the risk of infuriating Hitler and the chance that Owens would beat him, Long took a towel and laid
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football.. it not only a game\nIt is good Business, worlwide relationship or sometimes it is life for certain people.
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Basketball because it's faster, more exciting, and there's much more involvement in basketball than baseball.  There's more emphasis on athleticism in basketball than baseball, but skills are just as important, if not more important.
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sports are like shopping to women.  its something most of us love.  watching an athlete do amazing things, perform at a professional level, brings excitement to us.  it also gives us role models, gives us something to talk about, gives us something to brag about if our team beats a friends, and it ultimately brings us together to root and hollar and just be ouselves.  \n\nplaying the sport is even better.  guys have a competitive nature to them.  we like to hit, we like to brag, and we like to win.  its fun, and without it, i dont know what id do.  \n\nhey, just think that without sports, there wouldnt be any of those 'hot guys' that you girls swoon over.  we'd all be lazy and fat.  have fun with that.\n\n7
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There are a few things that make a sport exciting:\n\n1.  High speed. \n2. Continuous action and movement.\n3. Physical contact.\n4. High skill level.\n5. Visibility of the athlete in play.\n\nFootball (Canada and the US) has 1, 3, and 4.\nFootball (world game) and basketball have 1, 2, 4, and 5.\nBaseball has 4 and 5.\nTennis has 1, 4 and 5.\nAuto racing has 1, 2, 3, and 4.\n\nAnd so on.  But only three sports have all five attributes: hockey, lacrosse and rugby.  \n\nHockey is better than lacrosse and rugby because of skating.  In every other sport, if you stop moving your feet, you stop moving.  That doesn't apply to hockey.\n\nHockey has one other attribute that NOT ONE other team sport has: substitution during play.  (Well, box lacrosse does as well, but not field lacrosse.)\n\nEven in football (soccer), players cannot enter the field without the referee's permission, and they don't allow it while the ball is moving.  You could play 60 minutes of hockey with the only stoppages in play being the end of the first and end of the second periods.
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Being Responsible\nHonest\nTeam Player\nInnovator\nPerfect Attendance Record
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No, sport is a direct competition of fastest, strongest, and other physical activities. Not who can lie the best, not who looks the prettiest as in other sports. Sport should have to be something that you sweat for.
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Tennis provides great physical, mental, and emotional challenges. The best players in the world are physically fit, know how to decide on an appropriate strategy, and can usually  make their emotions work for them. How many sports require such fitness, the ability to respond to any number of tactics, and the need to deal with frustrations, nerves, anger, etc.\nI love tennis because it keeps me in shape, has provided me with a lifetime of friends (and my spouse), many helpful contacts, and a constant challenge to continue to improve my game. It's also a sport that isn't too expensive, and can be played in an hour or two, and with all ages and SES. Finally, it just feels GOOD to hit a shot well, and to know that hard work pays off.\nIt really is a lifetime sport that you can enjoy into your 80s, if not beyond.
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The reasons soccer is fast becoming the most popular sport the world has ever known:\n\n1.  The rules are increadibly simply - anybody can understand them.\n\n2.  Playing football requires nothing more than a ball - therefore football matches are easy to organize... Where as organizing a cricket match (for example) requires a few humdred pounds worth of hardware and a biliard-table-flat strip of turf\n\n3.  Football's scoring system offers the most valuable currency of all sports.  Ie.  One single point can win a match... where as one point in Rugby isnt that valuable and one point in cricket is hardly even worth a clap.   The valuable currency makes for feverish excitement when points are scored. \n\n4.  The relentless expantion of the football season, blanket press coverage and high power ad campaigns have raised the sports profile imeasuraby.
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Here is a definition of "sport" from Wikipedia:\n\n"A sport is an activity requiring physical ability, physical fitness or physical skill which usually, but not always, involves competition between two or more people."\n\nI would say that competitive and sideline cheerleading are sports.  There is physical demand and there are several physical skills that not everybody can posses, and it is not necessary to  compete to be considered a sport.\n\nI was never a cheerleader, I was one of those male major sport athlete where the cheerleaders cheered for me!  And I can't do those things that they do!