'A sound mind in a sound body' goes the saying. Sports and Games have a major role in our fast modern mechanical life as they help in maintaining a fit body. One of it’s major aspect is of course having regular exercise.
Sports are a great asset for all of us including children. These include a number of outdoor and indoor games. Mainly outdoor games, like hockey, football, cricket etc. are an interesting form of exercise, which helps in maintaining a good physical and mental health.The great advantage of sports is that they combine exercise with thrill, excitement and sensation.
The basic utility of games is undoubtedly helping us to maintain our body, beautiful and healthy. This applies to all of us. All children for example with delicate and fragile body frames should be encouraged, and if necessary even forced to play games. This will help them to breathe in fresh air as they are encouraged to have exercise.
Sports also allow one to utilise his/her leisure time. All time work and no play make a person very dull. Most of the games are quite inexpensive too.The greatest of all qualities in a sportsman is that of having a sportsman’s spirit. He/She learns how to win with grace and also to lose with cheer.
A sportsman playing on the field is not expected to play foul, he must cooperate and finally if his team suffers a defeat, he must not lose self-confidence but must shake hands with his opponents cheerfully. When a sportsman has acquired these qualities on the playground, he/she will naturally exhibit them in the wider sphere of life.
A sportsman knows how to deal with people who are very irritating for him as, he knows that adjustment with every member of the team is absolutely necessary and a key to any success.
Medals and other awards are an incentive to players to achieve excellence and a high standard of performance in their respective fields. The healthy spirit of rivalry and competition constantly leads to improvement in the performance and previous records are constantly excelled or surpassed.
Thus we can conclude that sports are an essential attribute of life. Sports build us up physically, mentally, socially and even spiritually to some extent, as we learn to take gains and losses in the same stride. We are able to face the onslaughts of the world if we are good sportsmen because we have all the ingredients of successful and happy individuals.
We have a lot in praise of sports but that does not mean that sports are without any disadvantages.
After studying the value of sports in its totality, it is that sports must be encouraged as they teach us a lot of good qualities which no other art can imbibe in us.