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= Winners Equals Losers =

==For some people winning is all they strive for, but my opinion is they should strive for other goals. Is all you care about to win? Is winning everything to you? Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace proved that winning wasn't everything. They helped one girl get through the bases when she tore her ACL. Mallory had a record for the most home runs. They could have just won the game. They could have just gone to the championships. They could have just let it roll down their backs. But they cared about her and helped the girl get the wanted home run on her achievement list. Winning should not be everything to people and they should have something else for them to care about. I disagree that winning is everything.==

==One reason can be that it leads people to make bad choices. Some of those bad choices are drugs, cheating, and bets. These all can hurt you or your career in at least one way. Also, this can make you loose your whole entire sport or playing season. Winning might feel nice every once and a while but, you don't need to get carried away and use drugs. Say you use drugs to help you win, someone will find out eventually and you will either be stripped of your prize or you will be out for the rest of your sport season because you were banned. Such as Lance Armstrong, he won, but used drugs; so the judges stripped of his prize. Since he lied and did not tell anyone until now, everyone is mad at him for not saying the truth from the beginning. If he had not used those drugs he would be able to race again and not be disliked by basically every biker in America. Even more extreme, the Nazi's were so desperate to win, that they were willing to kill millions of innocent civilians. This caused great destruction and proved that thinking that winning is everything leads to bad choices.==

==Another reason is that you can loose your focus. When you loose your focus, your grades go down and the stress goes up. When your grades go down you can get banned from your sport until the grades go back up. This also can make you stressed. Stress might not keep some people back but, it is still not healthy for your brain or body. Stress can also hold you back from doing what you usually do. Mia Hamm never lost her focus because, if her grades got below a B, soccer was taken away from her. When she got older, in her last year of high school she had the ability to skip and go right to college. She chose to go to college and even kept her grades up to an A, even though she was a year behind everyone else, plus, she never lost her enjoyment in soccer. Loosing focus can also mean loosing enjoyment in your sport/competition. Loosing enjoyment makes you want to quit, but you know all you want to do is win win win so you keep on doing it and the stress keeps piling up day after day. None of the stress, bad grades, or loosing enjoyment is good for you. Never loose focus, and this will not happen to you. ==

==Finally, you need to know what your limits are. When you are injured, and you want to play to win, would you? 3/4 kids and adults get hurt 5 times in their career. 4/4 kids and adults get hurt at least 1 in their career. If you do not rest or stop your sport if you are injured, the injury could keep getting worse and worse. Such as my foot, I wanted to keep playing but I knew I had to rest it before it got worse. Even though I was permitted to play from my doctor, my foot wasn't getting any better, so now I have to rest it for a month without anything but walking. Winning might be a reward but, you have to make sure you don't take winning to far and if you get injured to make sure you rest before you go back to playing that sport. You should make sure that you know your limits. Also, in Stone Fox, Willy the main character, pushed his dog too much to win the race causing him to die at the finish line. Even though Willy wanted to win for the right reason, to save his Grandpa, but you should not push a dog too far to win a race. This proves that winning should not be everything.==

==Even though winning can be nice every once and a while, you should make sure that it doesn't get in the way of more important things, such as health. Winning can be fun, but not after you loose your focus. Winning can be a reward sometimes after all the hard work, but you need to know what your limits are. Is it really worth putting your health at risk? Do you want that? For the sake of you and your family please do no think that winning is everything.==

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