Tell me what sport you're watching that has athletes in it who wouldn't put you at fear for your life if you invited them over to your house for a cook-out?
Hockey generally has few of the umm Amish. And golf.
Professional athletes are entertainers with great eye/hand coordination. However, almost all of them are extremely driven too. They are the 1% of athletes. Most had to work really hard to achieve that status.
I work with a several college athletes. One of them was the starting high school and college QB at a private college.
He is now forty something with three kids but runs marathons, maintains a four handicap, an expert downhill skier and still is VERY competitive even in a company football game when he QBs. His team has won our annual White Meat/Dark Meat pre Thanksgiving football game for about 15 years in a row.
He still gets pissed when some one drops his perfectly throw passes.
It is just the way he is wired.