As a description of the realities of athletic competition, it is an idiotic statement. Obviously, winning's not the only thing, because for every winner there's a loser. As a statement for developing and growing as an athlete, it's unrealistic, because in athletics as in all else we learn from our failures and mistakes. If what he was trying to say was, "Losing is no option; get all ideas of losing out of your heads!", then I understand his reasoning as a coach, but "Winning is the only thing" seems to me a sloppy way of putting it.
2006-07-08
17:30:25
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John (Thurb) McVey
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