TEACHING JOHNNY TO WIN THE RIGHT WAY - Edward R Walsh - October 1977

Edward R Walsh

Many of us have an obsession with winning. The passion to be "number one" permeates our entire society. But winning is not the only thing; it's not even the most important thing. We need to recapture the true spirit of sports competition. A lot of people today have become experts at winning, but they're only amateurs when it comes to losing. They know how to win with wild abandon; they don't know how to lose with quiet dignity. There was a time .when only sore losers were scorned as poor sports. Nowadays, losing itself often occasions ridicule and abuse. For example, in America, land of opportunity, unless you're on top, you're nowhere. The only winning number is number one. This same obsession with victory has leached the fun of competition out of sports spectacles around the world. When soccer games escalate into brushfire wars and Olympic competitions turn into propaganda devices, it's obvious the healthy urge to win has grown into a pathological obsession. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library