Why do you strive?

In writing the previous post, I started thinking about why we all train so hard - why, in touch season our contact girls keep the same tiring schedule and work on their fitness and endurance. Why, in contact season, our few pure touch barrakudas make every training and every game and work their asses off to hold a weaker team together against 1st div teams.

Even in season, you find crazies spending 72 hours at work, coming down to training, back to office and then only back to home for a couple hours nap. You have bluntnoses (ie nose to grindstone until there's no pointy nose tip) falling asleep in their cars while waiting for training to start. You have no-lifers who go to office at 5am, leave the training ground at 10pm and then the whole cycle starts again the next day.

Its not because of the coach, its not because of the captain. Could it be because of the team? Possibly.

I also think that these people work so hard because of the love of the game.

And when you love something, you'll respect all aspects of it.
You respect the game, so you do all you can to do well in it.
You respect your teammates, so you do all you can to support them.
You respect your opponents, so you try your best to give them a good game, no grandstanding, no giving up, play your hardest til the whistle goes
You respect the officials, so even if they make a wrong call, you just play the game, no backchat or arguments

I guess things start breaking down when there is a perception of less, or no respect.
Simplest would be when you perceive the referee as being biased against your team. That'd make you want to dispute every call.
When you perceive your teammate as not trying hard enough at training or game. That'll result in a flareup, pretty soon.

So what happens when things go wrong?