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Goodbye Winners, Hello Losers!
== In our basketball season, our team didn't win a single game, but we kept going. Our coach told us every game that the one thing that we are best at is that we never give up and that is what matters. Many people think that winning is everything. Winning is basically just a reward for practicing and playing well. If you think that winning is everything, you better start thinking otherwise. Even though winning makes you happy, it is not good for you to just think about winning and not anything else. I believe that winning is not everything because it makes cheaters come alive, it makes you lose focus on important things, and it creates many boastful people. ==

==Cheating is one great reason why winning is not everything. Think about this, at a basketball game, a kid named Robert is in the game and their team is down by two points so he falls to the floor so the kid on the other team gets called with the foul and he shot the two points to tie up the game. Do you really think that is fair? Next, if you make a bet and you know you aren't going to win the bet, obviously the first thing that would come into your mind is that you should cheat; that isn't fair for the kid you made the bet with. Lance Armstrong thought that winning is everything, but did you know that most of the times that he won he took steroids? Winning can lead to cheating as you can see.==

==Another reason why winning is not everything is that you will lose focus on other things that are more important. One example for losing focus is that school and academics is way more important that winning a sports game. George Washington though that winning was everything during the war, but really all that matters is that you fought and tried as hard as you could. Even though some activities are very important to you, it might not be as important as other priorities in life. You obviously would want to focus on these things more than winning a game.==

==Getting too boastful is another great reason that winning is diffidently not everything. First off, you can get way over confident and you won't practice, then you will get mad because that you lost. Also you will brag too much and people will think you are coming to be really mean. In the book, __The Black Pearl__, the main character thought that getting the Pearl of Heaven was everything, but when he got it, there wasn't any point to it because he already owned it. What would he do with it then? You will also have very, very, very poor sportsmanship when you lose. Many people say, " Oh, I never get like this because I am mature." Five minutes later you see the kid crying on the sideline because they lost by two points. So, don't get too over confident or you will end up like this.==

==Do you really want to think that winning is everything? Even though people can think winning is everything and they won't get too boastful, many people will get too boastful more than you won't. An animal may think that winning is everything, but since you are a human, you should not think that winning is everything. You really don't want to think all the time about just winning and nothing else. As you can see, I disagree that winning is everything.==