Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
I think sports are meant to unite people.
People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.