Like many of you, I feel blessed to have found this forum. I want to thank joemktg for making me aware of it. I joined a year ago. This is the first New Topic I have posted. This week, I came across my all time favorite quote from one of greatest Americans ever - Teddy Roosevelt.
Most or all have read it, but with all the young men and women competing in the HS or NCAA playoffs, in showcases with scouts and coaches watching, at tournaments or even just moving on to the next phase past HS or college, I just thought I'd put it out here for reflection. I shared it with bucsfanson and he said "Wow!"
The Man in the Arena
- TR, April 1910
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Pass it on!
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