Tobias-Reiper

Give GSP a tennis racket, and have him play a couple sets against, I don't know, Maria Sharapova. How many games do you think GSP is going to win? Hey, he's a superior athlete, right? This super-athlete, against sweet Maria, not even a contest, correct?: he can out-run her, out-jump her, out-punch her...

Most likely, Sharapova could sit on a chair and have GSP swing at air runing all over the place most of the time. Why would that be? SKILL!!

Athletics will always help anyone play sports, and there will always be some things from one sport that you can transfer to another: after all, sports include running, jumping, throwing, etc and using your hands and feet. But, to be GOOD at a sport, you need skills specific to that sport, and you do not get sport-specific skills by practicing another sport, period.

At the highest level of any sport, all the participants have more or less equal athletic abilities. What separates good players from bad-average players, is skills. What separates good players from superstars, is an innate ability to play a game, and that innate ability cannot be taught or obtained by any sort of training.

'Cause the simple man pays the thrills, the bills and the pills that kill