Rip And Red Summary

The first reason why winning is not the only thing because losing gives you the opportunity to learn from your loss and grow from it. Also, losing teaches sportsmanship which is an honorable quality to have. If the athlete is always winning then that quality will never be learned. Losing helps you grow, not only in your sport, but in life as well. A wise man

For three years during high school, I played Varsity baseball, a game requiring nine players to field a team where each player has specific jobs to do. Often a batter needed to hit the ball in a certain way with a good chance of being out but moving his teammate closer to home. Games were won by a team effort and often at the expense of diminishing a player’s batting average. As Coach Ayres always told his players, “We is greater than me.” He instilled this value to help us realize that the team outcome was better than individual achievement. In addition, since I was one of the most

Losing, no one wants to lose no matter what they are doing. If a kid loses then they want to get better and then get the prize but if a kid gets a trophy for no reason then they think that they don’t have to try harder and then faces difficulties in life that they don’t understand. “My children look forward to their trophy as much as playing the game.” (Jean Twenge) if kids think that the trophy has the same amount of importance as the game they shouldn’t play at all.

His classroom is the only space where he feels happy. Outside of the school, he sees the reality of how harsh it is; the idea in maturation where life is not always happy, so you must cherish those moments and learn to express yourself in all situations .The consistency of his lifestyle constructs an awareness that change will not occur. After the funeral procession, a melancholic narrator reveals, “ All my life, it seemed suddenly, was merely a waiting for the fulfillment of that promise, for a redemption from the narrowness and meanness of the world I came from; but it seemed possible finally that nothing would change” (6). As one grows up, the realization of lifes difficulties is evident.

Towards the end of the novel, characters once known as bullies changed. They showed it was never too late to change into a kind person. They proved being kinder than necessary can lead to a stable and friendly environment. At the nature retreat Miles, Henry, and Amos stand up for Auggie and take on the 7th graders. At the end of the year, Auggie and Amos became good friends. People who treat others like friends will end up getting new

The first maybe 12 years of our lives together you were pretty mean to me. You would make wait 3 feet behind you for the bus, wait to get inside, push me in the snow, and overall just harass me. These are just a few of the hundreds of ridiculous, cruel things I had to deal with. However, I believe this made us closer. Now we get along great and I don’t know where I would be without you. You’ve made me a stronger person and

continued to support and encourage him to keep moving along and do his best. I explained to

We always play to win the game, but winning and losing are not the most important things. It mostly about having fun and playing to the best of your ability. It helps with your teamwork skills because if you work like a team you will be able to be even better as a team then by individual.

“Oh, Dave ?” she said with a laugh. “He’s a little sensitive and very cautious. Maybe a little too cautious.” We both laughed. She told me she would be back soon and to do the test while she was gone. It was harder than I expected it would be. There were a ton of random questions that didn’t make since to be in there, since it was a math test. There were questions like “Why do you think you're taking this test?” and “On a scale of one to ten, how hard was this test?” but the one that stood out to me the most was one that said. “How does this test make you think differently about how other people take tests?” That one made me think about Jara. How she was always getting terrible test scores. Maybe this was what math tests were always like to her.

It is ironic how we can look back at something that scared us when we were younger; yet, the memory

To win is something that everyone strives to do. When you win, is the best feeling in the world. The complete opposite is true whenever you lose. Some people think that they are entitled to win. This not true. Nobody is ever entitled to win; however, everyone is bound to try their best. As Abraham Lincoln said, “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

He most support himself and wait to hear from his parents if that ever

Vince Lombardi, one of the greatest coaches in NFL history, gave this definition of winning "Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else." When people hear the word "Win" they think scoreboard, but there is more than what's on the scoreboard at the end of the game. Don't get me wrong, the score matters, but you will lose a few but if you learn from that and fix it, you will come out winning. When kids show progress, and can adapt and go with every adversity that comes up, that is what winning is about. Knowing your players gave everything they had every time, you are winning, and the score board will not show

“There is always room for Improvement.”, “good things come to those willing to work for it.”. When I was little I used to play softball. I started to play for fun, something to do on my down time since living on a dead end dirt road with four houses vacated by old people with no younger kids to play with got pretty boring. This was my way to simply meet new kids and have fun outside but it ended up turning in to so much more. I played season after season getting progressively better and better. I would spend hours outside with my dad after games and after practices and on off days just throwing the ball back and forth and practicing my batting stance on my little tee in my yard. We would throw until we couldn’t see the ball anymore because the sun had gone down and the sky turned dark. Even then, my dad would have to argue with me to come inside because I just wanted to keep practicing. I had a team to be better for, I wanted to be the best one out there and I wanted to feel the thrill of winning. I wanted to make my friends proud, my coaches proud, my parents proud and most importantly myself proud. There was no better feeling then seeing your hard work put in to action. The best way I can describe winning, is just an overwhelming feeling on pride, there is a certain fullness you feel, and once you feel it you never want to let it go. every time I did good I wanted to push myself harder so I could feel the thrill again, and every time I didn’t perform up to

If a survey was made asking every person in the world whether they would rather lose or win, a resounding number of people would not think twice about it. They would pick winning over losing every time. Why would they not? Winning has many benefits: the feeling of beating a rival is full of enjoyment and pleasure; it also makes you feel great because you exceeded at something and beat it; winning also makes a person feel more powerful as if they can accomplish anything. Overall winning seems to be far greater than losing; however, there are many greater benefits in losing. To start, losing is far better for a person than winning; it makes a person stronger and makes the fight harder for the times ahead; after losing time and time again, when you finally get that win it feels so much sweeter; lastly there are far greater things than just winning.