Beyond physical training and leisure time concepts, sports is a form of the work interpreting the life through games. Within its general integrity, sport has developed with the aid of many different scientific disciplines and there is the possibility to define it by being based on its basic features. “With the shortest cut of wording, it means game, distraction, entertainment and getting away from the work... Additionally, sport is the occupation combining game with the racing, rewarding the winners as they have more physical capabilities, entailing continuous and intensive effort as it requires top level game, challenge and heavy muscle works” (Fişek, 1985, pp. 5-8). At the present time, it is also possible to have the sports concept in hand with different forms by having various standpoints on it with accelerated scientific studies: “In our world giving ground to daily developing political rivaling, technical changes, social fluctuations, universal languages that can be perceived by everyone are considerably rare. Sport is one of them” (Bourg, 1992, p. 59). In sports, basic purpose is to win. This ideal is pursued sometimes in the form of team and sometimes individually. “Sport games mean the success for the targets by using body technology under the pressure of time and opponent” (Yaman, 2003). The struggle in these games is sometimes done at the level of countries and sometimes it takes place with the personal competition. However, it must never be done by going beyond the rules of gentlemanship in order to win. Because, gentlemanship and friendship underlie in all of the sports games. If these concepts are harmed, then the entire meaning and purpose of sports shall become dirty. “It is possible to take the fact of sports until the known history of the humankind and it attracts the attention of the masses especially during the last two centuries with ever-increasing rate” (Sert, 2000, p. 14). There are many factors coming in the forefront in this: Having the sports, and especially the branches like football and basketball, take place with priority in the government policies of the countries, having mass media give wide place to sports in ever-increasing way with every passing day, acceptance of the sports by the people from every age as an inevitable reality for a healthy living, having sport-economy relation offer a great potential and the impacts brought by sports-politics relation are known as the basic reasons.

Sports provide contribution in gathering the people from different continent of the world having different ethnical, religious and cultural roots and it helps to bind them together. Live broadcastings of sports games all over the world from televisions cause millions and even billions of people share the same excitement at the same moment. Sports competitions can also help to eliminate the international disagreements between the countries: Table tennis game played between USA-China, competition of USA-Iran national football teams in 1998 World Cup, joint application of Turkey and Greece for the nomination in 2008 European Football Championship, Friendship game played in the Olympic Stadium in Istanbul between Galatasaray and Olimpiakos can be given as the examples. If there is the need to take the topic in hand from another view point “Sport is the way of struggle of a person sustained with moral and physical activities first given against himself, then to nature, time and human.

Sports can also provide a healthy, disciplined character to the person by giving respect for the rules and to be able to establish relationships in the society with love and understanding” (Ünlütepe, 1991, p. 61). In Turkey, very few young people choose sports as an amateur occupation or as a professional vocation. Many difficulties such as inadequate sport salons, insufficient incentives of the State, limited support of the public are the most important reasons why we cannot bring up sportsmen. If we overcome these kinds of issues, sports shall also progress in our country and it shall be able to reach the level deserved by it.