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Is Winning Everything?

Is winning everything? This is a commonly asked question and many people will agree that winning is everything. Is it? Winning isn’t everything, most of the time.

One sinstance winning isn’t everything is if not winning means doing the right thing. For example, a high school basketball play with a serious brain disorder was the team manager. He hadn’t played all season. But, on the last game the coach allowed that student to suit up for the game, but that wasn't all though. The coach put him in for the final two minutes of the game. That student would get in the game, even if it meant losing the game. Another way you could do the right thing is by helping an injured player. One might say that doing the right thing doesn’t make a difference and all it does is hurt your team, but it does make a difference to who ever you’re helping.

Another reason we shouldn’t believe winning is everything is if we believe that we’ll most likely have a bad attitude. Sometimes people want to win so bad that they’ll get mad, fight, and possibly get kicked out of what they’re doing. Unfortunately, we can’t always win, and if you believe that winning is everything, it’ll be very hard for you to deal with when you lose. Sometimes the will to be the best and win all the time makes people cheat! For example, professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez wanted to be the best so badly he took illegal drugs to make him better! Don’t be A-Rod, know how to lose.

However, winning is everything do or die situation. For example, if you have cancer not winning could mean your life. In sports winning is everything, most of the time. For example if you’re in a championship game if you don’t win you made it all the way to the championship game for nothing! In an even worse situation a game of russian roulette! If you lose then, you won’t live to see tomorrow.

Even though winning is everything it’s not the only thing. If the only thing we concentrate on is winning when we lose we won’t know how to cope with losing! How would you feel and act if the only thing you focus on is winning. In the words of the great Michael Jordan: “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games, missed the game-winning shot 26 times. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. That is why I succeed.” When MJ said this he meant that in order to be a champion you have to know how to lose. Winning isn’t everything.

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