This way of thinking, which is very legitimate, largely comes from the mythical idea of "sports teaching life" or "the English army came from the fields of Eton

This way of thinking, which is very legitimate, largely comes from the mythical idea of "sports teaching life" or "the English army came from the fields of Eton". But I have to say that apart from the extremes of the distribution, I have yet to see, after a life in sports, that much of a difference in personality, attitude, "values" between people who did sports extensively and people who did not. Physically, yes, there are huge differences, and it is more than enough and what I like for my kids. It is all part of the discourse that sounds good in theory and in fact it is value-driven (it sounds good and it must be good), but empirically it does not come up as solid as expected.