A well-known football coach once said, "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Write an essay in which you state your position and support it with convincing reasons and examples. (5 paragraphs)

I completely disagree with this statement. This statement is from a person who's life was completely taken over by football. This person is very competitive and I think that people who think this way miss out on the joys of life when all they think about is winning. When people act like winning is the only thing that matters in their life, they don't live a very fun life. It's never fun to lose but for it to be the most important thing is despicable.

My first reason for saying that I disagree is that this state of competitiveness can at times not be healthy. If you get so upset about not winning like it's the most important thing in your life how are you going to react in your normal life? (if you have one at all because your life is based on football.) Life is called Life because your supposed to live not just want to win. It's life, you have to lose sometimes.

My second reason is that when you get so involved with winning you forget to live life. Life is precious and when you grow old and look back at your life if all you did was get mad and play football, is that your perfect life? In order to live, you can't always get what you want and dedicating all your time trying to win is pointless and foolish.

My third reason is that it's unsportsmanlike and unprofessional. If winning is everything to you I have to respect that, but teaching youth that way and throwing a hissy fit if you don't win is a bad example. If you want your life to revolve around football and training I can't stop you. It's wrong though to drag down those who you train to be like you. Let people make their own decisions when it comes to dedicating your life to something.

I disagree as a whole because of how competitive things can be, your life won't be something you can look back on and say you lived life to the fullest, and it's unprofessional. Not only do these reasons make sense, but they have real meaning. For all of these reasons I disagree that winning is the only thing that matters.

do you have a copy of the poem?