A Life Beyond Sports超越運動的人生

I’ve had second thoughts2， and my second thoughts have done double-takes3， wondering why the cliche “do or die” has been allowed to go on this long in sports vocabulary. In three words， the most affirming of joys of sport get killed， and are replaced by a sense of bitter desperation to succeed that puts indescribable4 pressure on athletes competing at any level. Do-or-die needs to be replaced by play-and-live as sport’s clarion call5.

我曾有疑惑，這種疑惑讓我猶豫之下再度思考，為什么我們能任由“不成功毋寧死”這個陳詞濫調(diào)在體育詞匯里存在了那么長時間。（剩余7396字）