How much hope?

Sometimes, a player in a match, knows that he has very little chance of winning and immediately gives up, allowing his opponents to have an easy walk over. As a result, he lost.

There is another kind of player, a good player, who knows that his chances of winning the match is slim, still fights on. Despite knowing that his chances are slim, he still goes all out, and refuses to think rationally, and believes that he still can win.

The thing that differentiates the two is that one has lost hope but the other still hopes.

I am the latter type. Given a slim hope, even though I know its 0.0000000000001% of winning, I will still take whatever hope that is left for me and stubbornly refuse to GIVE UP. Even failure after failure, still naively believing in that slight glimmer of hope. Just like the player who presses on, refusing to give up, until the match is over. Even when its over, he will go back to intensice training to prepare for his next match..

Thats how much hope I need...