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Message: [QUOTE="intlzncster, post: 3011985, member: 56"] There's a lot of really good things that come out of a kid playing sports competitively. Not just for the hell of it. Teaches you all kinds of important life lessons, about competitiveness, team work, comradery, sportsmanship (class and empathy), how to lose, how to win, etc. You don't really learn those lessons just messing around with team sports for the hell of it. Not to mention all the physical benefits and hopefully lifelong health/fitness habits. Perhaps. But with that mindset, no one would be professionals. It's the kids who are so driven that's all they do since they're like 5 years old that have a shot to make it. Those kids with some kind of innate talent are the ones who make it. Their needs to be (a lot more) losers to separate the wheat from the chaff. [/QUOTE]