Tuesday, April 23, 2013

It's not the critic that counts (Theodore Roosevelt's Man in the Arena Quote)

This quote from Theodore Roosevelt was not specific to mixed martial arts, but can definitely be related to MMA. It's also referenced in the past be Renzo Gracie and at the end of autobiography of Brian Stann:

















 "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."

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