"Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes one courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps one to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator."
Pope Pius XII
Sport at the Service of the Spirit
July 29, 1945
Submitted by CMcLean
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