Close Passage: It's hard to lose. When we lose, it feels as ___ all of our hard work has gone down to ___. It is very easy to get down on ___ and give in to feeling of anger and despair. However, we need to ___ the achievements of our opponents, as well as the fact that we ___ them work very hard for their victory. Just because we didn't ___ this time doesn't mean we are losers, so we shouldn't act like one.
By the same token, a win isn't an ___ to gloat or rub the loss in
our opponent's face. Celebrating is fine - after all, we have won and we to be happy about it. It is a confirmation of our efforts that
___ up to the competition. We lose everything if we ___ down our opponent because he fell short. Undoubtedly, we will meet the same player
again, and he may be ___ more psyched to win the next time.
It's a lot harder to be an outstanding loser, but if we ___
our composure, we will be able to see ___ went right and capitalise on that the next time. Once we have lost, we need to leave it ___
and move on. If we dwell on our disappointments, we will bury our chances for ___ on another day. Remember that a loss doesn't make you a loser for life!