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The referee says the game over. Your soccer team just lost the championship game 4:5. You were so close to winning the game! All your team needed to do was score two more goals. Why couldn’t you and your team do that? As you look at your teammates, you don’t see any of them smiling. Winning is everything because it could be a life or death situation, if you’re a professional athlete and don’t do well, you won’t get sponsored as well next season, and glory is for winners, not losers.

One reason that winning is everything is that it could be a life or death situation. Let’s say you’re getting chased by a tiger; if you don’t get to safety on time, you are dead. If you try to get a job and someone else takes the spot, you could end up starving to death. If Kate is swimming alone and gets a head injury, she has to stop herself from downing. If she doesn’t, she will drown. Even though losing teaches you what you did wrong, winning is everything.

Another reason that winning is everything is that if you’re a pro athelete and don’t do well, you won’t get sponsored as well next season. If you’re a professional swimmer and come in last place at every swimming competition including the Olympics, you won’t get sponsored as well next season. Let’s pretend that Maddy Olson is a pro skir. If she doesn’t do well at competitions, her sponsors won’t want to give her as much money as they did this season for next season. As John F Kennedy said, “Victory as a hundred fathers and deaf is an orphan.” Even though losing has that power to make you a better person, winning is everything.

A third reason that winning is everything is that glory is for winners, not losers. Ric got a better time on the mile run this spring than he did in the fall because her trained really hard. He beat his time and he now feels the wonderful feeling of glory because he beat himself! A cool Nike slogan is, “Life is a sport. make it count.” Who ever comes in last at the World Cup won’t be smiling and celebrating. I can definitely promise you that.

Even though winners are made from losers, winning is everything. If you ask any successful pro athletes, they’ll tell you that they didn’t make every team they tried out for the first time. If you don’t have the power to practice whatever you want to get good at, you’ll never win. For example, Freddie does track and field. At track meets, he always tries to beat his time in the 400 meter race, but he never does because he doesn’t practice hard enough. Winning is everything because it could be a life or death situation, if you’re a pro athlete and don’t do well, you won’t get sponsored as well next season, and glory is for winners, not losers.

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