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How you play the game determines whether you win or lose so agreed.

That is a phrase that losers use to make themselves feel better

Is this one of those stupid sayings to make everyone feel like a winner. Made to protect everyone's feelings. LOL

Don't be that person who thinks everyone gets a trophy if you didn't get first you lost.

Winning rocks !!

Winning is everything. If it wasn't we wouldn't call it a game...or life.

It's about both.

Why play if not to win? Then what's the point?

Don't get me wrong, I would rather win any day! I am very competitive BUT I am teaching my boys to have integrity, to be fair, and to think of others. I want them to do their best, but I will not let them be the kids crying or screaming if they lose!

I think its how I play. I like to play against myself and top what I think I can do. I don't care so much about the score at the end of it all.

Play for one reason - WIN.

Disagree cuz I'm the best in the game. Richard, that's my name.
-Richard Sherman

When you play the game of thrones, you either win or you die.

The purpose of any competitive activity is to win. How you play the game is a losers stance

"Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing" Vince Lombardi, who probably heard the phrase from UCLA coach Henry Russell Sanders who said it first.

the point of playing or trying is to win the game

I'll do whatever it takes, within the rules that make sense to me, to win

How you play.... But winning is realllllly great too.

You play to win the game! - Herm Edwards

-game of thrones

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.

You play to win. Unless its for fun

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" - Vince Lombardi

depending on which IT

"Winning isn't everything it's the only thing"

I prefer not to play the game at all. ;-)

It's whether you win or lose AND how you play the game.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, as long as you do either extravagantly.

True. But people only remember the winners.

As long as you play to win, try your hardest, and learn from your loss, it is all good. Isn't that just like everything else in life?

What is?

After just watching the Kings win game winning counts. It was an exiting game but there is only one team going to the Stanley Cup playoff and the other team stays home.

Training our kids to think everyone is a winner or that everyone gets a trophy is just stupid. There's only one winner. However, sports are about having fun, learning to be part of a team, and sportsmanship. Bottom line.

It's both. You have to play right and fair and be a good sport. But winning matters.

And there is a difference between being a good loser and a good sport. I'm a good sport if I lose, but I'm a terrible loser.

That's what I tell my kids, but I lie to them all the time anyway.
Sometimes, not all the time, it's about winning & losing.

That's true.

I dunno! I want to win pretty badly . . . :)

You play the game to win.

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'.

I agree, it ISN'T about winning or losing, it is about giving your all, being part of a team and having fun with a sport you love and not getting bent out of shape if you do lose.

Nah, it's about winning.

Agree. If you give it your all, in anything not just a game, the satisfaction is still there. If you didn't, there will be regret.

Losing that game won't get you a scholarship.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing

How you play matters, but winning also matters to me.

If you have iterated strategy absolutely! Game theory has answers to this very question.

While I think good sportsmanship is very important, it IS about winning or losing. Why do we keep score if it's not?

Ref doesn't see it, it was legal

How you play counts

I'd rather win