Sport is not a new horizon rather it is as old as the human society itself. Infect sports and societies both are changing their shape, form and nature together with the passage of time. The importance of sport in a society depends upon the culture of the society to a large extent. In modern era the importance of sport is much more than ever before because now the sport is no more a mere part time activity rather it is highly professional, commercial and specialized activity and the people are very much concerned and involved in it. But a few years back the picture was a little different at that time a large population had the opinion that sport is an idle activity and people used to scold their children for participation in sport. The proverb "Kheloge Koodoge Hoge Kharab Aur padhoge likhoge Banoge Nawab" was very famous with the middle class families.

But the things have changed in modern world now a huge population wants to see their children playing like Sania Mirza, Sachin Tendulkar and Vishwanathan Anand and this is all because of the involvement of name, fame and money in sport. The Media has placed the sport at apex end and that's why the leading sportsman are more famous than politicians or businessman of any country but still we find two opposite streams of thought on sport prevalent in most of the literature on this subject. On one extreme there are thinkers who regard sport as on idle activity, a mere pastime and on one extreme there are thinkers who regard sport as a key to success in life.