Sports n Character

Preview : My first blog . So started with a topic i like most , and kept it very simple .

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

Rightly said . Every sport has its own qualities to imbibe .Most of the qualities are within you but they might be latent at some corner . Nothing in the world comes out unless we use them .

Many of us play any game only for the sake of playing , not to learn .But I say play to learn , learn the virtue that make us good person, a person from whom others can learn and let the chain continue and spread as an epidemic .

Sports present a great platform to take out what you have but it takes a lot of patience to take it out. But everything comes with its ups and downs , we need to control it otherwise it will take us to a place of no return.Taming this horse takes a lot of character .

I would like show you the case of Mike Tyson .We all know how great he is in ring , but the adulation he got for being one of most prolific hitter in the professional boxing arena led him to the infamous road of drugs , abuse and alcoholism and same is the Great Maradona .

But the same has not happened with Michael Jordan,Mohamed Ali and our most Favourite( as far as I think every Indian's) Tendulkar .They have known how to control it . They have known how to guide it for the good of everyone, not that they have done great deeds for the society , but that they a huge number of fan following who follow them .If they can show them that they are good human being , really it will reflect on other .

Most of what i say , may be you all know them , but do we really implement them ? This is a earnest question to all of you who read it . I don't want any answer but answer it to yourself .

Someone has said "It is not important what you have printed at your back , but what on your chest ." Very right ,how ever great play maker you are, but it does not make any sense without others . If you are the most richest person on this earth , but you have no existence in a lonely island , where there is no one to see you or praise you . We play for others to see , but not only for ourselves .So first thing we learn play as a team and play for the team .

Second character is give more than you take. However great player you might be , but if you can not pass the baton to the next generation , then what is the use of you being great .

Third learn to have Patience at odd times . I have all seen great sports person keep their cool . If they can't they will end up in the soil .There are greats like Sampras, Federer and many more who know how to keep cool under intense pressure of Championship . That's what made the greatest ever in their games they .

For the time being this is what i have in my mind . I will come back with more .

All I can say sports has been companion till Now and will be in the times of need .

“Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”
[Merele Kessler]