"If you don't sell, you don't lose."
I remember back when I was a teen our football coach told us essentially the same thing: "You never lose until you quit playing to win!"
Well ... that was somewhere in the final quarter of the game he told us that. The opposing team was well ahead by over 75 points. Four of our key players were injured and couldn't play. It was one of those games that couldn't end soon enough. (We hadn't won a game that year, nor a game the three years prior, to help you understand how demoralized we were).
So those of us who COULD play decided we would make our coach feel better. When the game officially ended, our team kept playing.
The opposing team, of course walked off the field with VICTORY in their heads, but we refused to lose! Thus we scored touchdown after touchdown once we had no opposition.
Our coach was going nuts, of course, demanding to know what we thought we were doing?! We politely told him we refused to lose, just like he admonished us earlier.
The coach walked off the field EXTREMELY MAD, and so did all the spectators, except for a few who found it hilarious. But we stayed on the field and kept scoring touchdowns.
Dark came, but we still kept making touchdowns, albiet not as many as we made during the daylight hours. The field wasn't lit, so we had to make touchdowns in the dark.
We played football all night long. We played football until the following morning. We scored touchdowns as the sun came up. Then the police showed up and threatened to call out the National Guard if "we didn't stop our nonsense."
We were starving by that time anyway so we decided to voluntarily walk off the field. We scored so many points by then we lost count of how high the final score was.
It really didn't matter anyway. We had made our point.
The coach quit the same day and it couldn't have been too soon, as far as we were concerned.
Just thought I would share that long ago memory.
