The opposite of winning isn’t losing. It’s failing to see the larger picture.
Pico Iyer
What ping pong taught me about life (watch: 10 minutes)
Ping-Pong Diplomacy. (Read 2 minutes)
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson
Practice Playfulness 