You’ve probably seen the pictures and heard the story of the two girls college softball players who carried a player from the opposing team around the bases after she’d hit a home run, but tore her ACL while rounding first base.
According to the rules, if a trainer had come out to help her she’d have been declared out, so with little thought the two girls picked her up and carried her. I saw the interview with them on ESPN and they simply said, “It was the right thing to do”.
You have to realize that their team lost the game. What it tells me is that they were raised to care about others and they were coached by someone who obviously taught them the meaning of sportsmanship because they never gave it a second thought. They just did “the right thing.”
There’s an old proverb that says “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” In other words, you have your words or your actions down in your heart before they’ve ever manifested by actions. You can’t fake what they did. It was as real and it was powerful.
