"Win like you have done it before"

I am from a competitive family. From basketball, to volleyball, rodeo, or school, being the best has always been important. We have always worked hard to make sure success happened. One of my biggest annoyances is when people are cocky when they win. I can't stand when someone wins a basketball game or whatever they are doing and flaunt it. Humble is they only way to behave in my opinion. I have a friend who rodeos who is very good, but the bad thing is she knows it. We are always neck and neck at the rodeos and sometimes I win and sometimes she wins. We were at the High School Finals Rodeo in 2008. I was beating her for the overall average but she was very close behind. After the first round i knocked over a barrel. My friend won the first round. This put her ahead of me by one half of a point. There were two more rounds left and I would have to win and she would have to do bad for me to catch up. I did well, but not well enough. She won the next two rounds and that was able to keep her in first place. She had won, and it was hard for me to swallow. I told her good job and went to my trailer to secretly pout. She paraded around, posted how she had beat me on facebook, and made sure that I didn't forget she had won. It took everything I had not to slap her, but I just bit my tongue. It was around this time when I discovered this quote, "Win like you have done it before," on the internet. It really got me to thinking about the situation. If you are successful, be proud, but don't be arrogant. Win with grace and class, like you have done it before. Sometimes being at the top gives people an easy reason not to like you. Whatever you do, sing, dance, play soccer, or whatever, if you are the best someone will always resent you. This is why you HAVE to be humble about your successes. Don't brag and flaunt what you have done. Quietly win and go on about your business. This is the most respectable way to be in my opinion. If you succeed, act like it is no big deal, like it happens all the time. This to me is so important. The only thing worse than a sore loser, is a sore winner.