Winning Isnt The Most Important Thing

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Winning Isn't The Most Important Thing

Vince Lombardi's famous saying “Winning isn't the most important thing.
It's the only thing” is unfortunately the motto of too many athletes today.

Although winning is important and sports are, and should be taken seriously, by far, winning isn't the only thing. Putting everything you have and giving one hundred percent to the effort is also very important to competition. A team that puts everything they have into a game and comes out the losers, has a lot more to be proud of than a team who comes in first but only gave some effort. Over the years many teams have lost important games due to a few inches, one pitch or a strike of “bad luck” although these teams lost, they take it into the ...

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