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"Do not think you have to win. Think, rather, that you do not have to lose."
Harriet Woods said,
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."
Marian Wright Edelman said,
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach said,
"Conquer, but don't triumph."
Vince Lombardi said,
"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything."
Ralph Waldo Emerson said,
"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
Albert Gray said,
"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do."
Having to win, I believe, will put you at a disadvantage, mentally, against someone who is like Funakoshi says, is trying not to lose.
That slight difference in thinking is all that is needed to affect an outcome.
infinitesimalismal second of opportunity, or space in time, can determine in a life and death struggle who lives and who dies.
In competition the winner is declared almost after the first or second encounter with their opponent...
...only ones strength of spirit determines who relinquishes to defeat and the one who does not.
It's the mental part of Kumite and I believe it's more important than the physical...
...make sure you train them both...
RJF
