Role of sports in the overall personality development is 

1. Physical development – Games lead to proficiency in the neuro-muscular coordination, well organized games are stimulant to physical growth. They shape the body and maintain the optimum health from childhood to adulthood and gain speed, strength, flexibility etc. 

2. Mental Development – Individuals learn to make judgments, utilize reflective and creative thinking to obtain knowledge about rules and regulations through sports and it also sharpens an individual’s mind. 

3. Social Development – Players belonging to different places come closer to one another, human relations are developed, social qualities like fair play sportsmanship, courtesy are developed, games are just like fields where seeds of high character are sown and a harvest of better man is reaped. 

4. Emotional Development – Games develop emotions like hope, jealousy, distress, anger etc. and enable the individual to have proper control over these emotions. 

5. It also helps in building confidence and higher self – Esteem. 

6. Playing any kind of sport develops leadership qualities in an individual.