Coach V’s Corner: The two imposters

Coach V’s Corner: The two imposters

In Rudyard Kipling’s wonderful poem “If,” one of the lines goes as follows: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.” President John F. Kennedy once gave a more black-and-white assessment of what it’s like to experience a big victory or endure a devastating loss. He said, “Victory has a hundred fathers, while defeat is always an orphan.” Throughout a lifetime of being immersed in competition as a pl…