Values vs Value($): "It is Not If You Win or Loose, but How You Play the Game"

Ever hear the phrase "It is not if you win or loose, but how you play the game". Too many people in my opinion don't believe there is any value in that. I think there is a lot of value in it. Of course winning does matter or else why would we compete in anything. However the way you win or even loose is a very big factor. To be a winner means you were the very best of the competition. Everyone else was beaten by the best. Ones values however, is often a factor of the how the winner became the winner.

Look at the widespread use of steroids in today's sports. Baseball players and football players seem to get the most coverage out of this area. It's a fact that the use of steroids can make you bigger and stronger than someone who is not on the drug. But to beat someone in a competitive sport because of the use of a drug is showing how little value one has. It's cheating. It's playing with an unfair advantage. The value ($) of money or false sense of being a winner is more important than the value of ones self worth.

To me, the pride and satisfaction of years of training and improving your skills and practicing to achieve the ultimate goal of being the best is such a great feeling. To achieve it by means of cheating doesn't come close to that same feeling for one whose values are in tune to honesty and fair play. The cheater is only lying to himself if he thinks he is the best. Maybe it's that he has no conscience and it doesn't bother him at all. Only the fact that people think he is the best matters. Value ($) vs values again.

None of the users in pro sports willingly admits to the use of steroids either. Lying is a definite factor involved here and again ones values are questioned. Lying to oneself, lying to the courts, lying to the people.