Winning isn’t everything, there are things that are more important. If all you do is win, then it might seem that you know everything, or know how to do everything, and when defeat hits you, you won't know how to handle it. Loss teaches you that you can never always get what you want. Loss is the best personal teacher; it teaches you how to improve yourself, and it provides motivation. By implying that winning is the only thing to athletes also opens up the opportunity for terrible sportsmanship. If winning is all that matters than an athlete must do whatever it takes to finish the game on top. This means cheating, hurting members of the opposing team, and the use of performance enhancing drugs. But if that athlete uses steroids and continuously
Winning isn’t everything, there are things that are more important. If all you do is win, then it might seem that you know everything, or know how to do everything, and when defeat hits you, you won't know how to handle it. Loss teaches you that you can never always get what you want. Loss is the best personal teacher; it teaches you how to improve yourself, and it provides motivation. By implying that winning is the only thing to athletes also opens up the opportunity for terrible sportsmanship. If winning is all that matters than an athlete must do whatever it takes to finish the game on top. This means cheating, hurting members of the opposing team, and the use of performance enhancing drugs. But if that athlete uses steroids and continuously