I was browsing around the web in a funk after Duke lost to Carolina again. I’m dealing with the fact that my boss and I bet lunch on the game and I’m going to be buying my boss lunch for the second time this spring (as he went to Carolina). I browsed back over this quote from Teddy Roosevelt. I like it, and it is particularly nice right now when the bitter taste of defeat is still lingering.
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.
via Manvotional: The Man in The Arena by Theodore Roosevelt | The Art of Manliness.
oh … and by the way…. Go to Hell Carolina! Go to Hell!
harrumph.
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