What are you willing to do to win?

One class period we talked about what athletes were willing to do to win a game. The story of a baseball player was told by his coach to hit a batter on the other team. I am glad to hear that he refused. Which got me thinking, just how far would you go to win? From the first day i started playing competitive sports in second grade, I was told that winning is everything. Losing is never fun! Winning is what you work hard for day in and day out. When I was younger and in little league, my coach told me to hit a the next batter, and I told him to go fly a kite ( I did use more adult language, however). I left the field after that and told my dad. My dad was proud of me and told my coach off. My coach got kicked out of the league and my dad became coach for the rest of the season. What if I had listened to my coach at that time? I'm glad I didn't, because if I did, I don't know if I could live with myself today. I'm the type of person that doesn't want or wish that anyone gets hurt, even on a team I can not stand. There have been other cases of coaches ordering players to intentionally hurt opposing players. I remember a couple of years ago Head coach John Cheney at temple University told his player to hurt an opposing player. He later got fired for that. There are people out there who would hurt another player intentionally to win a game. That is completely wrong, if you can't win on a level playing field (with the opposing team not injured by your team) then you deserve to lose and be baned from sports for life!