(12-08-2020, 10:47 AM)Papa John Wrote: Plus Ricky Bobby said "If you're not first, you're last."
While I have respect for both Bobby and Lombardi, I don't particularly agree with their winning-is-the-only-thing mentality. I prefer this quote by Paulo Coelho: "You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit."
Obviously I wanted--and expected--Stanford to beat UW last Saturday. But that's not what made me proudest about the team. It's that they didn't quit in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. And I know that they will take the same never-quit attitude to Corvallis. Would I be happier if Stanford were undefeated? Of course. But I don't know that I would be prouder.
All due respect, I beg to differ. One of the many beautiful things about sports is that it's binary. There are no nuances. There is no ambiguity. You either score the TD, the basket, the run or...you do not. it's one or the other. In the end, you win or you lose. Nothing in between. It makes the win all the sweeter. Lombardi was right. It's everything. You play by the rules to win. It's the whole point.
Life is too short to waste on crap football.