'In sports, winning is not everything.' Do you agree?
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Yes,I agree as even if you did not win, you have already done your best. You should learn from your mistakes and make sure that you do not repeat them. By doing so, it shows that you know the value of sportsmanship. After all, the process of learning is more important than winning. Side: Agree
'' After all, the process of learning is more important than winning.'' Winning aids the process of learning. It allows the players to know what their opponents are skilled at and their flaws. It allows players to analyse and think smart, allowing themselves to obtain victory. To win means that the winner understands their opponents, Learning more about them and beating them at their game. Side: Disagree
I also agree as losing will make you bear loss and you will become a patient person. losing will demonstrate your mind to do your best and practice more to win.You will learn more and become a qualified person and as you know the most important personalities have learnt things by their losing. Side: Agree
To be able to improve beyond one's perceived limits, victory should be their main focus to ensure their optimal performance in every game. Even after losing to an opponent, it is vital for that player to learn from his mistakes, and learn about his/her opponent's weaknesses so that in the next confrontation, victory will be easier to reach. Therefore, to think about victory, is the constant reminder to improve and also push one's limits. These are known as world-class players, they no longer see whats on the surface, but go to every extent to achieve victory by playing their very best. Lee Chong Wei looks rather scrawny and thin, but he has improved a lot in his professional years and rose up the ranks quickly. He is the current number 1 seeded player in badminton. Side: Disagree
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I agree. It's all about the learning experience through the process . As “Winning is not everything, but the will to win is everything”, We can learn to work with our teammates and from our mistakes . The only need is to understand and get the true and underneath idea of everything. If one wins doesn’t means that one achieves and if one lose doesn’t means one has lost everything. Side: Agree
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As the saying goes by Winston Churchill 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts'. One may have triumphant, however, one should not complacent. As what Winston says, Failure is not fatal and success does not mean everything. It is the courage to move on that counts a real winner. Side: Agree
JoelTan-Group5 As quoted by Mia Hamm ' the person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything '. If one does not place winning on high regard, one will not have the drive, the motivation, the courage, the determination to work towards his/her goal and to win. Instead, one will have the mentality that even if he/she does not win, it is still fine and will not work hard to win. Hence, winning is everything for whatever reasons, be it as a motivation to work harder or to strive harder! Side: Disagree
Group 8 Speaker 1 [Alwin Lam] Sports is a healthy hobby which everyone should adopt. We can play with our friends and live a healthy lifestyle. If everyone has the same mindset of winning is everything, we will all be too focused on winning and will be unable to see sports as a way of having fun and chilling out with our friends and family. Besides, not everyone is perfect. Some are better than others, but this should not discourage us from coming together and enjoying the game. Side: Agree
Group 10 speaker 1: In sports everything is about sportsmanship. and its about challenging your opponents friendly . furthermore, through the process of competing , people will have the passion towards the sport and to enjoy it for the process, but not the results. Results doesnt matter as itwill be forgotten but the process will be the one to holdthe players to their passion for sports Side: Agree
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Group 6 wave 2 speaker Winning in sports is not everything. Although one must strive to win in sports, as long as one tries his or her best, it does not matter whether he or she loses or not. Between winning and trying your best, it is more important to try and do your best rather than to win. The reason for this is the satisfaction that you gain from knowing that you did your best and you are proud of what you have done. Although it is important to strive to win in sports, it is not the most important thing. As the saying goes, ‘’failure is the mother of success. ‘’As long as you continue to work hard and strive to win, you will one day achieve success. Side: Agree
group 10, speaker 2 janice tan Sports have many advantages to it, yes, they may be competitive when it comes to competition, but winning isn’t everything. Playing sports can allow social interaction with other teams and teammates. Adults and kids learn to work together towards a common goal despite personal differences, in the process of competition or playing sports, they will learn to help each and other. By trying to connect with other team members to win the game, they will learn how to get along with people, how to understand other people’s opinion and different perspective, and how to work with the others to get the best result. The teammates may bond and develop friendships with the one another, and they can better understand themselves and their fellow teammates. Through trainings or competitions, they have a shared experience, thus they are able to understand and connect with their teammates. Side: Agree
Everyone makes mistakes and we learn from it. Just like learning in school, we make corrections for the questions we did not get correct for. Hence, I strongly think that winning is not everything, as we can learn from our mistakes and do a better job the next time. Being a good team player means that he/she is playing the sport because she have the passion for it, not just having the mindset of winning. In a competition, the winning team may have won a “hollow” victory. The winning team may have resorted on dirty tricks such as using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids to boost agility, stamina and speed. The losing team definitely will not know about the cheating of winning team and may have blamed themselves for not performing well. Hence, winning isn’t everything, nor is it the only thing. Team 8 SweeMin, Wave 2 Speaker Side: Agree
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Group 2, speaker 2. "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." This infamous quote said by Vince Lombardi. But is it true? The fact that in sports there is such a thing as a hollow victory, if an athlete cheats, or use banned performance-enhancing drugs, or intentionally injures an opponent in order to secure a victory has done something immoral, and if such an athlete wins it is a hollow victory. Part of the appeal of sports as well as their value is the challenge that excellent athletes and teams pose to one another. If winning was truly all that mattered, then good teams should only seek to play fair or bad teams will do whatever it takes to ensure victory. However, in fact, this is not the case because winning isn't everything, nor is it the only thing. Side: Agree
If winning isn't everything, one would not strive hard for the prize, one would not have a motivation to reach for when half of the athletics competing with you is not aiming for the prize but consoling themselves that they tried hard enough. It happens often enough after exams. If one would not strive hard for the prize, the spirit of sporting would be lost. Side: Disagree
The motivation to do well in a particular sport may not be the desire to win. However, it may be from the passion a person has for that particular sport. By saying that "If winning isn't everything, one would not strive hard for the prize", means that if there was no win or lose in the sport, would you stop playing even if you have a passion for that sport? Side: Agree
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Group 4 Speaker 2 : Winning is never everything. Failure is the mother of success. Without all the failures that have happened in the world, we would have never learned from them. For example, people have longed to fly since ancient times. Without all the failures of the pioneers of flight, how would we know the dangers and how to avoid them? The sacrifices these people made are what made flight nowadays possible. Side: Agree
You said that ''Failure is the mother of success. ''. However, what is this that caused the failure? It is the Desire to win that caused the failure. It is the Desire to win that even gave any form of success in the first place. We fail to win. Since Failure is the mother of success, it already meant that winning is the goal and failure is merely one step to which winning can be obtained. ''Without all the failures of the pioneers of flight, how would we know the dangers and how to avoid them? The sacrifices these people made are what made flight nowadays possible.'' To them, do you think that winning is not everything to them? They want to succeed, they want to win. Winning is what makes their sacrifices worth it. As i mentioned earlier, failure is but a tool for success. Winning is the main goal and they never lost sight of it. Hence, winning is everything. Side: Disagree
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Group 4: Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.By having the want to win,it spurs on and encourages sportsmen to put in their best effort in it.The process of trying to make winning possible is important as they communicate and interact with their teammates.New friendships are formed and teamwork is built among the team members as they strive to achieve their goal of winning in the game. Side: Agree
Group 4 I agree with the statement that winning isn’t everything. Sports is a fun activity which allows people to enjoy themselves and have a great time but if all you think of is winning, you would not be able to enjoy it at all because you are too focused on winning to have any fun. Even if you didn’t win, you can learn from your failures and improve on it, that’s a important factor to success. What’s important is to enjoy the process and give your very best. Side: Agree
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I am speaker 4 from group 2. Winning is not everything. When we play sports, it's for the passion for sports.Many sport stars do not just play to earn money or to win. Of course winning is important but it is not all about winning. Its because people loves playing the sport that's why they kept on playing. Through sports, we can also learn moral values, character and teamwork so I agree that in sports, winning is not everything Side: Agree
A lot of people think winning is everything, I kind of do a little, but I don't really think it's everything because it's about how much you improve and having fun. If you like brag that you win all the time, that just clearly shows that you don't have good sportsmanship. I don't think winning is everything because if you win is does feel good, but at every competition, and in many there are more losers than winners, so if you hope to win, it's a rare chance. Side: Agree
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If the players takes the sport as wining . They would cheat to won and they would be unfair result , they will be no sport spirit .taking part in sport is more important than wining so the player will do the best in wining even if they don't unless they try . Ultimately they would be one of the players won and The other player will be justice in the final result even if he or she didn't won. Wining must be the second thing on the mind of players . Side: Agree
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Sportsmanship is a spirit and championship an event. It is the spirit which is more important than event. Event is the outer manifestation of inner human quality of fair play and healthy competition. At the end of the day sportsmanship pays richer dividends than championship. Side: Agree
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Winning is only everything if you're going to die if you don't win. But if all that's going to happen is one side gets a trophy and bragging rights and the other just has to wait to try again next time then that's not enough reason to cheat or be a bad sport so then winning is NOT everything. To use real examples, if two armies are about to battle but instead of going all out they just send their two champions out to fight each other to the death then yes winning is everything to them and their armies. But, if it's just a professional sports league and if the millionaires on one team lose to the millionaires on the other then they really have no excusable reason to elevate winning above human decency, honor, and respect. Side: Agree
But, if it's just a professional sports league and if the millionaires on one team lose to the millionaires on the other then they really have no excusable reason to elevate winning above human decency, honor, and respect. They get paid millions of dollars to elevate winning above decency, honor, and respect. Side: Disagree
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I think that winning isn't important because kids come home from their sport with a big smile on their face because they had fun even though they lost and parents get angry when their kids loses but kids think well I tried my best, the team tried their best and so if we lost who cares Side: Agree
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this is because not all winners are perfect players but you can lose and be the best player.It is not about the medal taken but the effort done.Winning in a game may be contributed through making sure your opponents get injured which is not right.The only thing I believe it is to lose while on the right track because next time you will have learned a new tactic to play, I mean losing is part of success and it is called lesson Side: Agree
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As legendary football coach Vince Lombardi famously stated, "Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing." Though, is his addendum to that chestnut: "If winning isn't everything, then why do they keep score?" We should expect to find such total devotion to victory in the world of athletics. For the coach of a sports team, winning really is everything. All the mental and physical preparation is aimed at achieving one simple objective: Beating your opponent by scoring more points, runs, goals to win. while sportsmen are competing, winning is important. We test our skills; we test our dedication, we test our bodies. We keep score, to see how we measure up. Side: Disagree
While we are competing, winning is very important. If winning isn't everything, then why do they keep score? We should expect to find such total devotion to victory in the world of athletics. For example, for the coach of a sports team, winning really is everything. All the mental and physical preparation is aimed at achieving one simple objective: Beating your opponent by scoring more points, runs or goals. We often train for sports by having the end in mind and to be very frank, nobody has an aim to lose or place the last. In fact, other than winning being an achievement to the whole team, it is a self reached goal that boost our metal and physical strength. Side: Disagree
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In the heat of a competition ,people may see each other as rivals and have a very fierce and competitive match. However, with good moral conduct and a positive mind set, i believe that the both competitors will still see it as a friendly competition. Losers should not be a sore one and the winner should be humble. A hostile circumstance should be evaded and rough or foul play is unacceptable and cannot be the case as although winning is the point of competitions, it all goes down to the personality of the competitors. Hostile behavior is dependent on the player and not the desired competitiveness of the match Side: Disagree
So you ask why do they still keep score? Well I'll tell you - it's to add a little spice to the game! Not only do we enjoy playing sports, we can also keep score to see how well we have done! Everyone likes being praised for the work we put in, and healthy competition is good. Either way, it's natural that people are afraid they lose, and this propels them to work harder. The scores are motivation, and a very important element of the game. Winning is encouragement, to play harder and try to be the best we can be. But whatever it is, winning definitely isn't everything. Winning isn't everything, it's only part of the story. It's not victory itself that counts, but the road we take to reach it. Don't forget the experiences, the passion, and the bonds we form through it. Who can say those mean nothing to you and that the product is all that counts? But what about the competitive world? Well for that, I ask, how about the teams that play even though they know they are going to lose? No matter what happens, they try their hardest and represent pride for their country. They still put in all their effort with the single goal of getting as far as they can, but even if they lose, they don't become sour or start tearing just because they lose. To them, winning isn't everything, but it is the effort they put in that counts. To leave the field with no regrets is what's important. Side: Agree
I agree with Alwin's point,"To leave the field with no regrets is what's important." . In my opinion, sportsmanship is about doing your best in the game that you are in and maintaining good relationships with team mates. We definitely do not want to say, "actually... I think we can do better... We should have tried harder than slacking around" after losing our games, right? Just like for our school work, we take pride in our work, we make sure we did our best. Side: Agree
I agree with what you said ''To leave the field with no regrets is what's important.''. However, that is precisely the point that is why winning is everything. To enter the competition means that one will do their best to win, starting with that burning desire for victory. Will anyone one will do their best to lose? Also, winning in a competition means wining in the right way and not resort to cheating as it is the same as losing. ''Don't forget the experiences, the passion, and the bonds we form through it'', winning does not mean that the winner will forget those you mentioned and in my opinion winning does not suggest at all that one will forget treasured memories!Therefore, winning is everything. Side: Disagree
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To be able to improve beyond one's perceived limits, victory should be their main focus to ensure their optimal performance in every game. Even after losing to an opponent, it is vital for that player to learn from his mistakes, and learn about his/her opponent's weaknesses so that in the next confrontation, victory will be easier to reach. Therefore, to think about victory, is the constant reminder to improve and also push one's limits. These are known as world-class players, they no longer see whats on the surface, but go to every extent to achieve victory by playing their very best. Lee Chong Wei looks rather scrawny and thin, but he has improved a lot in his professional years and rose up the ranks quickly. He is the current number 1 seeded player in badminton. Side: Disagree
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Group 7 - Vince Lombardi famously stated, "Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing." Begin with the end in mind, without victory in your mind before you start, no one would have the motivation and drive to win. More importantly, what is our definition of winning? Everyone's definition of winning is different, winning to you might be a process of continual self-improvement. Also if winning is not everything , why do we still keep the score ? Side: Disagree
I think that having genuine interest and excitement in doing what it takes to achieve those a win is as important as actually achieving it, if not more so. It's much harder to find the will to win if you don't believe in what you're doing in the first place, and even if you do succeed, your victories will ring hollow. Hence,I feel that winning is everything only when you get it the right way and believe in what you do. Side: Disagree
We are taught as children and in schools that it's not how you finish in sport which matters, but that you compete, and play the game in a fair manner. Rightly or wrongly, that maxim disappears at the elite level. In the era of millionaire sportsmen and million-dollar payouts for sporting successes, winning has become paramount. Lose a match and you could lose your job. Lose a match and sponsors and backers also lose faith in you, you could lose whatever you build up for. Side: Disagree
Group 3 ||||||||||| Speaker 1: In sports competitions, players need the desire and the will to win to achieve their goal and succeed. With this mindset, players will force out the best in them and hone their skills with their respective opponents. This will not only give an exciting match for the spectators to enjoy, the competitors will also gain good practice and improve their skills and techniques. Side: Disagree
I disagree because winning is important in sports. the main purpose of sports is to compete with your opponents. what's the point playing sports when we do not want to win? once we have the dedication towards victory, we can improve ourselves physcally and psychologically. group 5 Side: Disagree
In my opinion, tabulating scores helps us to reach our targets. For example, a ball game team have been training for many months. Without scores, they would not know their standards and how much they have improved from their last match. Even friendly match have to tabulate scores because it helps both team to know where they are at. Without the tabulating of scores, it will be hard for sports players to set their target because score is one way that improvement can be observed. Side: Agree
Improvement is one way of winning. Bonnie Blair once stated 'Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you are doing better than you have done before'. Thus, it is true that tabulating scores is a way of improvement, but the main motive is to see how much one has win as improvement is a from of winning. Side: Disagree
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Group 3 JiaXian , Wave Speaker 4 Most of us have been told that winning isn’t everything and that it is all about having fun, right? Well, they lied. To a certain extent, everyone wants to win in competitions that they take part in. If you are only going through life to have fun, you won’t have a purpose and you won’t achieve your goals. Winning is the goal of every game and people would not play a game without a goal. It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are out there — to compete and win. In everyone’s eyes, their definition of winning differs. To me, winning is what I believe in because it is what drives you to finish the job. I don’t believe that winning is claiming first place in the 100-meter dash, or winning the state championship in football. It is the goal of every game, sport, or activity, and in order to win, you must do your best. I feel that winning is greatly tied in with sports, being the best while we can, and hence it is everything. Side: Disagree
Group 9 Jing yi 'Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing' and 'The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will'. by Vince Lombardi Without winning, there will be no competitions, no Olympics. Every 4 years,there will be Olympic games which everybody are looking forward for their country to win, athletes have their bonus pay through winning. News broadcast, newspaper, and every other media platform, they will compare the number of gold, silver and bronze medal in the Olympic games. If a country have the least medals, they are look down by other people in the world, which means not a good achievement in sports. How many athletes showed sportsmanship on televisions? Is it true that in competitions, every athletes have show their sportsmanship? The reality is that every athletes cared for themselves during the competition to win and bring pride and glory to the country and themselves, they are not selfish, they are just displaying competitiveness. If everyone's mindset of winning is not everything, there will not be any winner. Side: Disagree
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THE POINT IS TO WIN!!! sports are a form of COMPETITION. and what do you do in competition? COMPETE! and what is the definition of compete? "Strive to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others who are trying to do the same". In conclusion winning IS everything in sports. Side: Disagree
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Group 3 | Speaker 3 Winning is everything to every competitor, a true athlete and a worthy opponent. This is why teams compete and why fans pay to watch matches. Winning is pride; it is what players live for and what players dedicate their lives to. In competitions, it is an artificial test that we accept, to test our skills. It is artificial, but it also reflects life. We put ourselves on the line, and see how we perform. We test our skills; we test our dedication, we test our bodies, we test our minds, we even test our luck. And we keep score, to see how we measure up. In life we can't always see how we measure up; we can fool ourselves. So in most sports, we keep score, and see if we were fooling ourselves. Side: Disagree
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'Winning isn’t everything - it's the only thing.' quoted by Vince Lombardi. In sports, there are competitions to gauge their standard, differentiate their sports ability. Winners get everything and losers get nothing, which is how I look at it. Thus, they will strive to win and be the cream of the crop. Because when you win, you are praised and you are looked down upon when you lose. For example, you are being selected for the rally race across the level in a sports meet. Your teachers, parents and classmates are all present. Your teachers would have wanted you to win for the class’s glory, your classmates would want to see the team finishing first, your parents would love to see their child with a medal and you would want to win the race to be proud of yourself. Therefore, winning is everything in sports. Side: Disagree
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Jian teck here. Karl Meinhardt(softball player) says "My coach was only concerned with winning. He wanted that 12-inch pennant trophy so badly, that any 10-year-old that stood in his way was toast. He'd start the same pitcher on the mound every weekend until he lost, and then switch to another until he lost." Winning is everything and winning is most crucial part in life. If winning wasnt everything then who bother about the scores? Scores are mostly to show the difference between two or more people, I mean to know them in which position they are in their lives. Scores are to evaluate a person performance and move ahead as high as we can. Thank you. Side: Disagree
I agreed with the advice that "Winning isn't everything." Winning is not important, but only to a certain extent. Why? While we are competing, winning is very important.To add gravity to the situation, non competitive people may find winning as everything distasteful and puzzling, but I think winning should be important for them too, in life. In life, we may be competing against other people, but we are really competing against life itself, and against ourselves. If we are to succeed in whatever we do, winning over the obstacles must be important to us. If we want to be good at our job, have a good relationship with someone, be a good parent, be good at our hobby, be happy and many more, then we have to defeat the obstacles thrown at us in life. In conclusion, winning is almost everything when we face these obstacles, and it is often the mindset to win that brings us to achieve greater heights and make a difference in each of our life. Side: Disagree
When it comes down to it, a sport is much more than just a game. You’re playing for your team. You’re playing for your brothers, your sisters and anyone who ever believed in you.
But when you’re getting your ass whooped, sometimes it’s hard to keep the faith. However as we all know, it’s how you react to adversity and bounce back that measures the greatness of an individual.
The true leaders are guys who motivate those around them. And, sometimes, this needs to be vocalized just like we’ve seen in countless locker room speeches.
Once you master this, it can be applied to anything in life as the recipe for success is pretty much universal — hard work and not being afraid to fail! These are 10 Inspirational Locker Room Speeches That Will Remind You It’s More Than Just A Game. Side: Disagree
Personally, I prefer to win than to lose when playing sports. In a sports match, the objective is to win against the opposing team; not lose to the opposing team. If winning is not everything, then why is there a score in place? Humans are competitive by nature and therefore will have the desire to win in sports. Side: Disagree
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Why is it too hard to face this? Sports is something you already start to win. When you go out on the field, do you really think that the efforts were the things that count? No. You actually think and rethink about winning and how to win. It's human neutral habit to be aggressive for winning and becoming the best. Getting the apporval and admire that you can get. It's as easy as that. Even in Plato's ethics, he says that humans are already made as an aggressive creature, scrounging for some victory. Therefore, I believe that sports are supposed, and are just for winning. Side: Disagree
Group 1: Speaker 4 "If winning isn't everything, then why do they keep score?" In sports, winning is a form of motivation which entails an individual's desire to achieve victory or their goal. The game is played for the end result. Either one party wins or other. The score is the measure of individual's performance, and the team's performance. It motivates a person to constantly improve themselves in order to give their best performance. If winning is not the aim of the game, then why play? Side: Disagree
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In our generation, sports has been a major part of our extra curriculum activity in schools, weather its knockout teams or just school sports. But is wining in these competitions everything we want to achieve?? Some might say yes however, I don't believe that winning in a sports competition is everything. We play sports to learn and improve our skills, to be socialise with your new friends you've made, to enjoy your time during sports, to experience the excitement while competing with one another and to enhance your fitness level. All these things we learn in one activity helps us build our social health, physical health and emotional health. In addition, the happiness you get while winning a competition lasts for a very short period of time however learning these essential skills lasts you your lifetime. That is why i strongly believe that winning in sports is not everything. Side: Disagree
If you play sport purely based on your funneled vision to just 'win', this totally obliterates the purpose of sport. The purpose of sport is to genuinely enjoy the sport at a competitive level in order to get the win. However to just win means you force yourself to train and play hard to get the win totally skipping an authentic enjoyment of the game. Therefore to win out of force is hollow and meaningless, but to win through genuine enjoyment and hard work results in a real feeling of victory and triumph. Therefore sport is not all about winning. Side: Disagree
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I disagree that winning is the most important part of playing sport. I think that way, because of these three reasons.
First of all, the games are for fun. Well, winning the games is also important thing, but it is not the main purpose of the game. The main purpose of the game is to have fun, to have or practice teamwork, and to have a chance to lead the team peacefully. Second, most of the games are for practice. I personally think that during the practicing games you should focus on stopping the balls, having a teamwork, etc...., and not just thinking about winning. Also, if there is a kid, who only thinks about the score he may say bad words, or start body tack-cling only because his team didn't win.
Third, the losing is also useful. By losing, most of the people feel depression. But soon they recover, and learn to work together towards to make their goals to come true. Despite the differences, people try to understand each other, and naturally, they learn hoe to get along with people, how to understand themselves and fellow members.
Lastly, it is okay to lose, because you have already have tried your best. You should learn from your mistakes and make sure that you do not repeat them . By doing so, it that you know the value of a sportsmanship. After all, this process of learning makes the game more valuable. Side: Disagree
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