Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious. A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The word sport comes from the Latin term ‘spondere’, which means ‘to bend’. This refers to the fact that athletes bend themselves physically in order to achieve their goals. Sports provide an outlet for people to exercise their bodies and minds. They act as an escape from the pressures of daily life.

At its heart, sports is about competition, but it is also about social inclusion and community building. It is about inspiring people to be better human beings while also bringing people together through shared experiences.

Source: Take Time For Paradise: Americans And Their Games

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