Winning Isn't Everything

A well-known football coach once said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” This is the motto that many of the sport athletes we see on television and on the field live by. This motto can be a good motto or a bad motto to live by. I disagree with the statement “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. There are many reasons that I could agree that the quotation is incorrect, but today I am going to argue three of my major points why this is incorrect. First, I believe that as long as you put your best foot forth then your always a winner, second, I believe that sometimes you need to loose to show you who you really and what you can do and to win you must loose and loosing motivates you to do better and makes you a greater team. To begin with, I believe that it is ok to loose sometimes as long as you know that you know you put your best foot first. Well some may ask the question well what do you mean by that? Well what I mean by that is your not always going to win but as long that you know that you put everything it to winning the game then you know that you are successful and there is nothing else you could have done to win the game. You can’t just use this quote just in sport, but this quote can apply to everything that happens in your life time. Many people go on different journeys throughout life and are successful. Most of the time you are never successful on your first try but if you give up the first time that you fail then you will never accomplish anything. For example Michael Jordan missed 62 free throw shots before he actually made 258 free throw shots. Well, you may ask the question why do you tell me this? Well I’m glad you asked I tell you this because if Michael Jordan who is one of the best basketball players that ever existed would have gave up because he missed 62 shots then he would have never made it to make the 258 shots that he made. So I can’t stress it enough how important it is not to give up when you fail the first time. A mistake is not a mistake unless you don’t learn from it. Now, believe that sometimes you need to loose to show you who you really and what you can do. That is such a true statement. Sometime you really have to loose because you save yourself trouble. For

example when the Florida lost a couple games ago to Georgia they saved themselves a lot of trouble. If they would have beat Georgia then they would have had to play Alabama which wouldn’t have been to good because they would have been in a even lower rank then they were before. So that’s why I believe that sometimes it can be good to loose. Also until you loose and are really tested you don’t fully understand what you can and can’t do. For example, you can sit in a class room and learn something all day but, until you are actually orally, physically or mentally you will never know what you can and can’t do. See on a time a lot of peple think that they can do this and do that but they don’t understand until someone makes an example out of them and shows them they can really do. After saying all of that, loosing makes you a better team. Well I know after saying that some people are saying how could you even come out of your mouth and say something like that? Well when a team looses they make it a part of there agenda to become a better team. When a team starts loosing the coach mentality is we got to something a little more. So the coach starts making the team do something a little more like practicing a little more. A real team doesn’t like loosing so loosing will motivate that team to do something a little bit more. Loosing really makes you a better team. If you really look at these days a lot of teams that are at the top now a few years ago were on the bottom but when they saw that they were on the bottom they had to do something to make it to the top. I really believe that you have to start at the bottom to make it to the top. In Conclusion, a lot was said in this paper. A well-known football coach once said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” This is the motto that many of the sport athletes we see on television and on the field live by. This motto can be a good motto or a bad motto to live by. I disagree with the statement “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. There are many reasons that I could agree that the quotation is incorrect, but today I am going to argue three of my major points why this is incorrect. First, I believe that as long as you put your best foot forth then your always a winner, second, I believe

that sometimes you need to loose to show you who you really and what you can do and to win you must loose and loosing motivates you to do better and makes you a greater team. I really believe that you cant just say that we as a team is nobody because we lost. If you put your best foot first then you know that you have won the victory within your hearts.