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Winning and Losing

David Boski

‘and remember boys:
winning isn’t everything,
but losing is nothing’
my father said to us
before our first soccer game.
we were 8 years old and he
was our head coach;
we ended up losing our first
6 or 7 games, all massive
blowouts, before the league
stepped in and my father lost
his voluntary position. they sent
us all to new teams, and at the
end of the season we were all
supposed to receive trophies;
my father woke up late that
Saturday morning, hungover,
and by the time we got to the field,
everybody was gone and I never did
get my trophy; but he reminded me
and my angry mother that I didn’t
win anything, so he didn’t know why
the fuck we were all getting trophies
anyways. he was right, and that quote
has stayed with me my entire life;
and I’ve had plenty of losses that
were a whole lot of nothing, and a lot
of wins that weren’t much either, and
even though he lost his volunteer job
as a head coach of a kid’s soccer team,
that was nothing too; because he’ll always
be a winner to me.

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