I often ask me why to talk every day of sport and sport performance when we live in a period dominated by uncertainty and so many people live in poverty. Furthermore, the same sport is not immune to serious problems involving athletes and their organizations, by doping to fixing match, by false in account to frauds related to the acquisition of sports events of global importance. If only we stop to these aspects of our society we should leave sport, but probably we should not deal with anything if we thought that “All are thieves.” Then there are the young people with their expectations and motivation to achieve their dreams, and that is what drives me to talk every day about sport . We cannot leave them alone to seek the right path, we cannot leave them prey to some of the many who want to ruin them. Instead, we must teach:
- the pleasure of work ethics
- the belief that the power of the athletes is at 100×100 in providing the best performance of which they are capable and not to win
- the awareness of their individual qualities and the need of continual improvement
- the ability to accept mistakes and defeats, by living as the only experiences allowing the personal empowerment
- that the feelings proved in training and in competition are a way to learn how to handle themselves in moments of great intensity and stress
- the ability to enjoy and be proud of themselves
- the ability to respect the opponents and umpires
- the ability to accept the difficulties of race as an essential part of every performance even when you are really well prepared to compete
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