Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's how I was raised in all sports," Farrell says. "My father was a perfectionist in his sport of baseball, and that's how he always taught me to practice, telling me how he always did it. And it was a way of getting to enjoy the game--the more you practice, the better you are, and for me personal satisfaction comes from success...
...When you get into a sport like this, when you spend to much time doing it at practice, it's a bug--if you lay off it for two days, you're dying to go back on the ice and shoot a puck. And if I go to a pro game at night, it drives me crazy--I want to go straight to the rink that night...
With that self-imposed approach to his sport, it is a tribute to his values and his upbringing that at the end of the practice day, he can still say the following...
...hard work, but at the bottom of it, sports are fun. That's one of the things you have to take into sports when you're playing them it's game, and when you stop having fun that's where you should stop, because that is no longer a sport...
...Bright Hockey Center, the fathers are moreoften than not there at every game, too. But thesedads would tell stories like Farrell's, givingtheir love largely through sport and watchingtheir kids seize the gift on their own. That, andonly that, is how the passion can become theirs toshare...