Animating Sporting Morals, Ethics and Politics

Abstract

Mihalich has suggested:

The existential athlete does not think about space and time in the world — the athlete lives space and time in the world in his or her uniquely acute expression of consciousness-in-the-world-with-a-body. A good example is the anecdote about Yogi Berra… When Yogi contended that ‘he couldn’t think and hit at the same time — it’s got to be one or the other’ he epitomized the distinction between conceptual analysis and existential action in specific human situations.

(Mihalich 1982:80)