"It is the unique role of quality physical education programs to develop the health-related fitness, physical competence, and cognitive understanding about physical activity for all students so that they can adopt healthy and physically active lifestyles." The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)

Sport and physical education can provide unique opportunities to contribute to our quality of life. The Surgeon General's Report (Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General [SGR], 1996); outlines the health benefits of physical activity on Health for all ages. The development of a physically active lifestyle behaviors can lower the risk of chronic diseases and have a great impact on one's personal health, financial status, and the health care costs of a nation. In the U.S., high health care costs has been associated with diseases as related to a physically inactive lifestyle. These include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, obesity, psychological health, arthritis, and osteoporosis.

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Learning to be part of a team means learning the team functions best when no one worries about whos getting credit for it. Thats so true of baseball, basketball, football, college sports, hockey and soccer. It is also a good attitude for tennis, golf, horse racing, motor sports, and boxing. Athletes should learn to only be concerned about what they can control and to develop their own sense of satisfaction in a job, well done.

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Sport is part of the culture of this country as well as most countries. Whether we are participants, spectators or volunteers, sports touches us all. Even our quality of life is significantly enhanced by sports. sports and recreation is our ticket to a harmonious life. Sports has helped the educated man illustrate a balanced development of all his powers, it has created improvements in medicine, nutrition and social life.