Some people believe that monetary rewards would keep sports persons motivated to do their best whereas there are others who feel that it is name and fame that does the job.

• How powerful is money in keeping sports persons motivated?
• Do you think name and fame does have a role to play in this?


It is fact that money is a great force to reckon with in anyone’s life. This is true with regard to sports persons as well. However, the number of people who go for name and fame is sports career is much higher than those who go for money.

Money is powerful to some extent. Monetary benefits of sports are so alluring and tempting that many sports lovers pursue their career aiming at making it big with money. But the fact is that their number is much less than others who are out for name and fame. The scope for making money or the possibility of getting honoured with money is of course a drive which keeps a smaller minority motivated to do well. It is right to say the power of money is limited to a few and its attraction is not so compelling.

Name and fame, on the other hand, is what makes most of the people excel in sports. It is this that keeps the fire burning in them. Their ambition, insatiable will to excel and thereby becoming part of the sports history of their nation make them go the extra mile. In this relentless process of winning minds and making history most of them are tend to ignore the lure of money because money comes, sometimes it stays. But name and name visits one extremely rarely, but it never leaves one. So it stands great many cuts above money.

In short, excelling in sports takes a lot more than money and name and fame. Still, comparing money with name and fame, there is no doubt it is the latter that holds much sway. Name and fame keeps one performing relentlessly.


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