an athletes prayer?

Question

i am looking for a prayer titled "an athletes prayer". i read it once before but dont remember where. can you help me find it? its about playing fair and to the best of your abilities and stuff like that

Answer 1

An Athlete's Prayer

I thank you, O God, for giving me a body
which is specially fit and strong, and for
making me able to use it well.

In my training, help me never to shirk the
discipline which I know that I need and that I
ought to accept.

In my leisure and in my pleasure, help me
never to allow myself any indulgence which
would make me less fit than I ought to be.

When I compete with others, help me, win or lose,
to play fair. When I win, keep me from
boasting. When I lose, keep me from making excuses.
And help me always with good will to congratulate a
better player who beat me.

Help me so to live that I will always have a healthy
body and a healthy mind

This I ask for your love's sake. Amen.

And also this:

Help me to play the game, dear Lord, with all my might and main:

Grant me the courage born of right, a heart to stand the strain ... send me a sense of humor, Lord, to laugh when victory's mine:

To laugh, if I should meet defeat, without a fret or whine ... give me the grace to follow rules, to 'fess up' when I'm wrong.

When silence or some other thing wins plaudits from the throng ...w hen foes are tough and fighting fierce and I am getting weak.

And teach me, Lord, life's game to play just one day at a time, with thee as coach and trainer, Lord, real victory must be mine.

There are many atheletes' prayers.

Answer 2

Help me to play the game, dear Lord, with all my might and main;
Grant me the courage born of right, a heart to stand the strain…

Send me a sense of humor, Lord, to laugh when victory’s mine;
To laugh, if I should meet defeat, without a fret or whine…

Give me the grace to follow rules, to ‘fess up when I’m wrong,
When silence or some other thing wins plaudits from the throng…

When foes are tough and fighting fierce and I am getting weak,
Dear God, don’t ever let me show a broad, bright, yellow streak.

And teach me, Lord, life’s game to play just one day at a time.
With Thee as coach and trainer, Lord, real victory must be mine.

Answer 3

An Athlete's Prayer

God, let me play well but fairly.

Let competition make me strong by never hostile.

Forbid me to rejoice in the adversity of others.

See me not when I am cheered, but when I bend to help my opponent up.

If I know Victory, allow me to be happy;

If I am denied, keep me from Envy.

Remind me that sports are just games.

Help me to learn something that matters once the game is over.

And if through athletics I set an example, let it be a good one.

Answer 4

See below, all the atheist prayers I know, in quotes ;-)
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