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The Man In The Arena
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:06

I thought I would share this note I posted on their walls on Facebook. You may already be familiar with 'The Man In The Arena' by Theodore Roosevelt. It's at the end of the Renzo Gracie 'Legacy' documentary. Which I was just happening to be watching again. The below is worth the read. Many times.

"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."

 


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