Winning or losing a match is not the only thing in a sport but there is something ‘bigger’ than that. You win some you loose some but this ‘bigger’ thing will always remain with you. Sports can actually be a metaphor for life and therefore when you participate you actually learn ‘life skills’ and these are the things that will always remain with you and that will mold your personality. This is something which is bigger than just winning or losing a match.
Here are a few interpersonal (between two or more people) skills and interapersonal (within an individual) skills that you learn from different sports:
# Team spirit and Cooperation: Be it an individual game or a team game a player has to work in a team. The player is quiet dependent on his/her team for his better performance and similarly its very important that s/he contributes to other team members performance. One very good example for this is cricket a batsman is unable to score a run without his partner and a bowler cannot do much if his fielders are not fielding.
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# Respect for your competitors: You have to respect your team members and it is also important to respect your competitors. Your competitor is only an instrument that helps you to show your extra ordinary skills. The better your opponent the better you have to play. In every sport after the match is over both the competitors meet each other to shake their hands and compliment each other for their game, that’s respect.
YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HONOR YOUR FIERCEST OPPONENT: THE BETTER YOUR OPPONENT, THE BETTER YOU HAVE TO BE
Interapersonal Skills: 
# Raising The Bar: Trying things that you haven’t attempted before, stretching yourself beyond your self-imposed limits. Competing with yourself, making and breaking your own records.
THE CHALLENGE IS NOT TO WIN, BUT TO CONQUER THE FEAR. IT IS NOT OTHER PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO BEAT, IT IS YOURSELF
# Rebounability: The ability to bounce back after a set back. As you have highs in your career you will have lows too, but what is more important is bouncing back from your failures. Thus believing in yourself, practicing hard and focusing on you the factors which are within your control
TOUGH TIMES NEVER LAST BUT TOUGH PEOPLE DO
# Facing challenges with courage: There are a few factors which you can control and there are quiet a many which you cannot control. These factors which are beyond your control at times really takes your test (Adversities, challenges, problems) but you face it with full confidence and courage by focusing on the factors which are within your control.
ADVERSITY CAUSES SOME MEN TO BREAK, AND OTHERS TO BREAK RECORDS
# Self- confidence: Your confidence now does not depend upon the result of your previous match or on your opponent for the match, but it now depends on your skills be it physical, technical and psychological. Your focus is more on giving your 100% today.BETTER PLAYER DOES NOT WIN THE PLAYER WHO PLAYS BETTER WINS
These are just a few lessons or life skills that we learn from our sport but its only when we look beyond the winning and losing part of the game. If you can look beyond it, its just win-win. You win a lot and this remains with you throughout your life.
CHARACTER IS THAT WHICH REVEALS MORAL PURPOSE, EXPOSING THE CLASS OF THINGS A MAN CHOOSES OR AVOIDS 
So Live The Sport You Love.
