2006-11-06 05:41:30 · 16 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Winning is an added bonus, but how you play the game is what really counts. Playing with integrity and ethics and high standards promotes the same mentality in the competitor and if it doesn't, then the perception is diminished for that competitor. Nothing is better than self-satisification. Most people who have won by cheating or other bad means will tell you that the joy of winning is short (especially if they have a conscience). Most people who have lost but played by the rules will tell you they did the best they could, and perhaps learned (and grew) from their mistakes.
2006-11-06 06:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Allison S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Certainly both are important. For if you win through deception and dishonor, then you have really not won at all and thus it is how you played the game. Wining by cheating....is dishonorable.
Winning on its own is perhaps the accumulation of a life time of work and thus give you that final sense of accomplishment, of inner peace or success that no one but the winner can really understand...."that 15 minutes of glory". We all need to be a winner at one time or more in our lives, it enriches us, and gives us a sense of others struggles for their "15 minutes in the lights". As a winner, it is one that learns to see in others their potential and their weakness, yet that they too are worthily of winning.
Playing the game and playing by the rules and using the sources allow for playing the game even though you don't win, is still a winner, for most will not finish the game, will not honor the rules and tools of the game or they will complain that they should of or could of, instead of admitting the defeat with honor. Some times just having played the game, gives one more to live by, learn and experience than that which just wins.
2006-11-06 13:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How you play the game is more important than winning, because you don't really win if you have to walk all over people or stab them in the back to get to the top. People may not always remember if you help them out, but they sure as heck will NEVER FORGET if you did them wrong, and you never know when the day will come (and it WILL come) when you need help and you'll have no one to turn to. Remember, he who dies with the most toys...DIES!!! You can't take 'em with you.
P.S.: Nice butt.
2006-11-06 13:50:05 · answer #3 · answered by sarge927 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How you play the game you will need friends to acknowledge your accomplishment and not minimize them
Think of Micheal Jordan before he let others play with the ball he was disliked because he was trying to win the game alone and ignore the efforts of others.
What happened when he learned to include others in the game he was called great and others liked him.
so it is how you play the game
2006-11-06 15:18:05 · answer #4 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How you play the game
2006-11-06 13:48:13 · answer #5 · answered by I think... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
winning is nice but how you play the game tells people about your character. you will feel good about yourself whether or not you win the game as long as you did your best.
2006-11-06 13:48:47 · answer #6 · answered by bubba j 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the stakes. Say if you don't win, you will lose your child and he will die. Then, it's not so much how you play the game, but that you win, no matter what.
2006-11-06 14:18:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how you play the game says more about who and what your are and believe than whether or not you win.
2006-11-06 15:07:32 · answer #8 · answered by Heath 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they're both the same. If you play the game well you will eventually win.
2006-11-06 14:01:01 · answer #9 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the prize at hand. If the prize is worth cheating for than winning is more important however if you become dependent on cheating than you become weak.
2006-11-06 13:49:23 · answer #10 · answered by BluLizard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋