This book is about the human love of sport. Sport is a lived experience of the integration of mind and body: anyone who has hit a winning serve, a perfect drive, a home run knows that mind and body are completely interwoven at that moment. If a happy life is one that fully expresses our natural faculties, then sports must play an essential role in that life. Philosopher and athlete Colin McGinn describes the athletic experience from the inside, capturing what is uniquely valuable about sport as an activity. Mind-body unity, practical knowledge, peak experiences, success and failure, the ethics of competition, fitness and death - all these are woven into the story of an athletic life. McGinn is able to put our passion for sport into conceptual perspective, showing that sport is a complex and revealing human activity.