Last night’s Super Bowl had something for everyone: great teams, excellent coaching, fierce competition, human interest, and nail-biting suspense. Each team and athlete played like champions and it’s too bad one of them had to lose. I suppose losing feels worse than winning feels good (as Vince Scully once said), but, when you play with heart, never give up, and continue to believe in yourself, you achieve the true measure of success. In the end, the winners and losers all played the game with passion and pride; life, like sport, demands that same level of professionalism, spirit, and honor. Most of us will never play in a Super Bowl, but we’ll most likely have an opportunity to play in an important event of some sort: when that happens, be sure to remember that it’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play. Our companies, colleagues, customers and, not to mention ourselves, deserve that to be true. Act like a champion today.
Henry Grantland Rice (1880 – 1954): Early 20th-century American sportswriter and caster known for his elegant prose
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