The virtues of sport: hard work, courage, resilience, and respect are virtues of competition that we can all be proud to herald as our country’s virtues as well.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David McCormick declares “When I Watch Wrestling, I See America.” And so do we. And not just wrestling. Sports in general, particularly when competed earnestly at the college and high school level, are inspiring and encouraging.
McCormick quotes wrestling legend Dan Gable as saying “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” That may or may not be true. But without a doubt, it is easier to come back from a defeat in life when you’ve had to do it again and again while honing your skill in your chosen sport.
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Four virtues are cited by McCormick as on display at the NCAA Wrestling Championship: hard work, courage, resilience, and respect. These are markers of the combatants not of the spectators and the critics. The rest of us can enjoy the ebb and flow of the match, but let’s pay our due to the effort and dedication of the competitors.
To a lesser extent you may see these virtues every week in gyms and on playing fields nationwide. And where the athletes fall short of the ideal, they know in their hearts where the deficit lay. It is popular to classify sports—particularly pro sports—as entertainment and the athletes as entertainers. With magnificent contracts and sports betting, that may be true. Such a label, however, is far wide of the mark with most high school and college sports. Athletes—even weekend warriors—still grasp these virtues as they strive to improve and be the best they can.
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Hard work, courage, and resilience demand respect. And it flows readily from those who know what it takes. It is why the victors and the defeated shake hands and embrace. With David McCormick, let’s celebrate our athletes and the virtues we prize as Americans.
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