The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.