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re: What's more important: winning or how you play the game?

Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:12 pm to
Posted by SaturdayTraditions
Down Seven Bridges Rd
Member since Sep 2015
3383 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:12 pm to
Winning... nobody remembers the effort a loser puts out. Nobody remembers that game from high school when you played hard... they remember that you either won or lost. That's why it is a stat in nearly EVERY competition (soccer with their ties)... winner or loser. That's what you are and that's what makes you.
Posted by LSUgirl4
Member since Sep 2009
39501 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:14 pm to
all is fair in love and war and monopoly.
Posted by Olric
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
2187 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:16 pm to
I've never lost a game of basketball with my friends and said well at least I played the game the right way.
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
27855 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:19 pm to
Posted by litenin
Houston
Member since Mar 2016
2695 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:21 pm to
How you play the game would be my answer but there are simply too many variables if they are mutually exclusive.

For example, pickup basketball. I could technically foul so hard when playing that it would knock out the other team's best players and force them to fill in with lesser players.

There is a balance that needs to taken into account that includes both winning and how you play the game.
Posted by LSUgirl4
Member since Sep 2009
39501 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:21 pm to
that doesn’t make any sense. you can be second or third or fourth. hell! you can be fifth!
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
27855 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:25 pm to
Don't ruin it for everyone. We haven't been thrown out of Applebee's yet.
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
138349 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:29 pm to
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that doesn’t make any sense. you can be second or third or fourth. hell! you can be fifth!
I was high on peyote
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30152 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:29 pm to
keeping score is now offensive to the losers so with no scores you have no losers so everyone wins, yay liberals saved the world from bad feelings

if we dont find a way to quickly take back the schools and fire every damn liberal administrator and liberal doctrine indoctrinating teacher there, there is no hope for this country. if it was done tomorrow it would still take a good 20 years to undo the damage caused by brainwashing minions of liberal idiot minions who worship socialism and think terrorists are the good guys.
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
40117 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:32 pm to
Find me a great GOAT level team that didn’t have players that blurred the lines between legal and illegal or dirty and clean. You won’t be able to.

Great players make a living pushing the limits of their opponents and the refs.
Posted by LSUgirl4
Member since Sep 2009
39501 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:33 pm to
i don’t think you know what GOAT stands for.
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:52 pm to
What game?

Posted by mtntiger
Asheville, NC
Member since Oct 2003
29590 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:55 pm to
I'm a golfer.

How you play the game is extremely important.

That said, when I play the game correctly, it usually leads to winning.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:19 pm to
quote:

let's consider the two to be mutually exclusive


That's the problem right there. They aren't.
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:32 pm to
Kids- how you play
Posted by Antonio Moss
The South
Member since Mar 2006
49366 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 7:18 pm to
quote:

For argument's sake, let's consider the two to be mutually exclusive


They're not, though. Process is way more important than results. Because, in the end, the right process will yield consistent, desirable results.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
101554 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 7:22 pm to
"It's how you play the game" is a phrase used to make losers feel better about themselves
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
24001 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 7:31 pm to
quote:

If you play the game correctly, you will win so I’m going with how you play.

Well that's just not true if you're opponent is better than you at every facet of the game.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
121348 posts
Posted on 3/12/18 at 8:17 pm to
When kids start playing sports, the most important thing is learning the game. When you get to HS that's when they should really start to "play to win". It's about a team working as one to accomplish goals. The goal is to be the best as you can in order to be better than your opponent.
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