Trying, winning and losing 1 Think about these sentences. Which one do you think is the most important? The two stories tell us that ... 1 it's important to try to win a race. 2 you shouldn't start a race if you think you can't win. 3 when you start something, you should try to finish. 4 if things go wrong, you should try to keep going. if you try to climb a mountain but don't get to the top, you fail.