Recently, I attended a couple of exciting basketball games while visiting my family in Nebraska. My granddaughter performed as a cheerleader, and the folder that listed the names and pictures of the players and cheerleaders was also the top 10 reasons to sport a winning attitude. I was impressed, and since many of the readers of this Warm Thoughts column attend the sports activities, I thought I would like to share these 10 reasons.
10. Because taunting, trash talk, and intimidating behavior have no place in high school sports or any other level of sports. 9. Your admission allows you to watch these performances of highly impressionable 15 to 18 year old kids. Not a license to abuse coaches, officials, players, and other spectators. 8. You want others to treat you the way you want to be treated. And how many of us want to be treated with disrespect. 7. We need positive role models. 6. People don't always remember the final score, but they do remember the fans in section 3 who made fools of themselves. 5. Because coaches and officials who are also teachers in what they do. Why would you harass them in their classrooms? 4. A national survey indicates kids play high school sports to have fun. 3. It's how you play the game that counts. 2. It's simply the right thing to do. 1. Because sportsmanship begins with you. So here are the 10 reasons about attitudes and sports, whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game and your attitude is important!
Of all the Warm Thoughts columns, I have written it in over 400 columns…The thoughts on attitude have received the most comments. I was pleased to see these 10 reasons to sport a winning attitude. You are in good company when you have a good attitude. You may want to call it the zeitgeist of the new millennium. Attitude has become the spirit of the age. “I am so thankful for people with good attitudes. I feel so uplifted by wonderful folks who have life affirming attitudes of gratitude.” Victor Frankel. Once stated, everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. Andrew Scott Hamilton stated that the only disability in life is a bad attitude.
More Warm Thoughts: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life, attitude to me is more important than facts. Charles Swindle.
Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea, written by Dr. Luetta G. Werner
Published in the Marion Record, February 22nd, 2001.
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