"If you want to win, punch the best player on the other team when nobody is looking"
I sometimes wonder where the sense of competition went...Like when it used to hurt to lose? I guess..you play enough games, and you just start to lose that. I suppose the answers are rather obvious. All the many games that were played...diluting the will to win...destroying the purpose of the game. Perhaps it is like I've always said...once you get used to losing, you accept it..you can't change it. It doesn't hurt as much anymore. Perhaps, the pain is still there just in a different way. Yesterday in the lockeroom Coach asked how many of you came from losing teams..where you lost more than you won? Only myself, and one other player raised their hand. She looked at me, and said firmly, "I can tell." It was a complimentary "I can tell." I suppose because I do not hang my head after I lose. At least, not anymore. Losing is almost ritual to me I suppose, because falling-short has increasingly become part of who I am. I think I am just attracted to underdogs, or something along those lines..perhaps I've grown acostume to this sort of thing...I've never been a champion of anything (Not even SOAC), but I think I have acted like one.
OMG TBC!
OMG TBC!