';True sport is always a duel: a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue,a duel in which?

';True sport is always a duel: a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue,a duel in which body and mind are strengthened.';





Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian poet).





what does this quote mean?!';True sport is always a duel: a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue,a duel in which?
When your really trying at a sport, it is a duel between your fear of what could happen(pass-out, injuries, etc...), how tired you are from doing the sport, and the nature of the body to not do sports.

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