Winning Isn T Everything It's The Only Thing Analysis

The quote “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” is a derogatory, uninvolved group of words, without context. But, coming from a football coach, specifically Henry Russell, the quote seems moderately more tame. With football having only two possible outcomes, the quote is put into accurate light, but outside of football, the passage is limiting, showing a very small perspective of life. With football comes two options: win or lose. With life however, there are seemingly infinite possibilities, with each path, each choice, not being a certain win or lose scenario, having many branching pathways that may loop back from a loss into a win, or a win to a loss. All based on how an event is perceived, differing perceptions may find that …show more content…
Russell’s memorable words may need an amendment, though may reduce the quotability, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the greatest thing, but maybe not what we need, maybe just doing our best is what someone needs, even if our best isn’t good enough.” Maybe we should stop concentrating on our own wins, and look towards others, towards what they would need to win, helping and guiding. Isn’t that what we learned? Isn’t that what so many people have died to tell us? That we need to put aside our petty, small views of winning, that we should instead look outward? Where did the switch change in our brain, when, from our childhood to now? It seems that a lot of the world’s problems would be solved by pushing quotes like this aside, and pressing towards quotes of helping, not of hurting, of bringing up, instead of pushing down. Yet, here we are, and here we will stay, until we find ourselves in a situation we need others to help us