Sports is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero.
Sports is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sports is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Sports is able to create hope, where once there was only despair and is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.
Sports is, along with other forms of modern art or entertainment, a liminoid phenomenon, or a kind of brief and small-scale liminal phenomenon.
Sports is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.