Values And Values In Sports

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Values of competition affect the way we act and changes the way we think at period of times and it 's really sad seeing those who act different and being selfish to become an winner of the competition. People who react to competition see their self an whole lot different they wouldn’t know how are they acting or how they are being so selfish in their life and it hurts others. They would care a lot about winning then anybody else health situation. They would attend to cheat to win and think its good to cheat their self into cheating out the game and not playing fair .
They wouldn’t realize till then end when someone is doing the same to them and starting to feel bad for them self because they let their actions taken over. How they act towards
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People need to man up and realize that no one care whos the best team or who gots the most wins they care about good sportsmanship and whos one of the best players in the league. Like DiMaggio have said he plays the game because he loves to be on the field not because he is playing for the crowd or for others he love the game because he wants to play it he dosent care about whos watching him play or about the fans. I truly respect and understand why he said that because he playing the game of baseball for his self and loves the game he plays for and anyone should love the game they play for and just play it because they love the game …show more content…
He earns my total respect and he is an great role model as an athlete anyone should play their own sports or games because they love doing what they doing and love playing that sports or game. You shouldn’t let any competition take over your actions you shouldn’t be able or think you have to cheat and heart other by disregarding the rules and disobeying the rules this would just make you look bad and feel bad as an person so I would just play by the rules and worried by winning or losing a game or competition at the last minute or

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