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This quote is printed every month in "Playground" magazine (a regional MX magazine). I think of this quote often. I even have it tacked up in the garage next to all my mountain bike racing numbers from the last decade and next to all the MX pictures of myself and my friends. I think about this a lot, especially when I race the dirtbike, since I never finish much better than 2nd or 3rd to last place. But at least I can say "I Raced!"
Here is the quote:
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;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and may fail again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who does know the great enthusiasm, the great devotion;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
Think about it...
Here is the quote:
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;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and may fail again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who does know the great enthusiasm, the great devotion;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
Think about it...