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The Man in the Ring…..
By Keith | April 24, 2008
This quote is from a speech Tedy Rosevelt gave during his time as President. It exemplifies why we do what we do in training. It is not about others. It is about you. It is about the [wo]man in the ring.
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The next time you fail or succeed you did it because you were in the ring!
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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.
A special thanks to Lisbeth at Crossfit Watertown to remind us all that it is the effort that counts….Thanks Lisbeth!
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