I will admit right now that when it comes to basketball games, I am a competitor. I hate to lose. I honestly don't understand how some athletes can be a part of a team and just accept losing like it is as natural as eating or breathing. But the high school athletic world is full of people just like that. Yes, I understand that a team cannot win all the time and losing is a part of life and we have to learn to deal with it. But do we have to accept it?
But when a coach and a group of athletes decide together that they are not going to accept losing and will do everything they can to change losing ways and turn them into winning ways, then the victories begin to follow. But if there are no competitors and losing is an acceptable end to any game, then victories will never follow.
As I approach this new basketball season, I am hoping and praying that I find a team who will not accept losing. Three times before I have taken over programs that had become accustomed to losing, but found some true competitors who just needed their competitive spirit channeled in the right direction to turn things around. They hated to lose and would not accept losing. Once they were shown how to win, the sky became the limit. I hope I find the same thing this year with my new team. Do they really want to win or do they view losing as an acceptable end. I will be finding out in the next few months.
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