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2009-09-18 2:19 PM

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This is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt from 1910. It is this years' theme for my kids high school cross country team.I think it rings true for all of us who are about to do or have just completed our first Ironman.



"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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat

2009-09-18 2:56 PM
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Its called Man in the Arena

I have it on the front of my desk

Always a good reminder to me of where everyone starts and not to forgot it also.
2009-09-18 11:14 PM
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I've read that before but it has been a long time. Thanks for sharing it again.

2009-09-19 7:47 AM
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What makes this quote more impressive is that Teddy (one of my favorite presidents) actually lived out this creed.  If he were alive today - there is no doubt that he would have been an Ironman.

I love the fact that you are using it with your cross-country team.  I might steal your good idea and share parts of it with my middle school team.

Thx,

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2009-09-19 12:33 PM
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I agree, and love the quote.  Thanks for posting it
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