Sport Ethic

"Sport Ethic" is the "sacrifice for The Game" as Hughes & Coakley suggest in the beginning.

The 4 dimensions is an explanation of what has to happen or what ends up happening for these athletes to become successful within their sport. They have to stand above the rest, they have to love The Game over everything and anything else, they have to resist the pain and risks that could happen through their play time, and ignore any of the limits that are or have been "set" by others. There are no limits in how high an athlete can go.

Many athletes comply to these beliefs because they need to show that they are strong beings and not
just talented, they can tolerate more pain than others and  they will not let anything get in their way of winning not only for their team but for themselves, striving that distinction among their peers. Athletes often times are pushed to their limit and then some afterwards.

Not having played sports or being an athlete myself, I have not faced this, at least not via sports.
These dimensions do seem familiar while being a student, especially a person of color at a predominately White university. We constantly have to strive to go above and beyond to prove that we are equally as competent or more intelligent than our White peers.

Although I, along with other non-athlete students, might not have a future sign with a major league team, we do have deals to maintain our own requirements to be able to stay in school, therefore we do have certain guidelines and expectation for which we do have to equal if not surpass to be successful.