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Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt #179326 01/21/11 03:32 AM
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I would like to dedicate this fine quote to all the wrestlers through out Kansas, who push themselves daily towards their goals.

"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."


Jonathan Whisnant
Goodland High School-USD 352
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Re: Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt [Re: Crossface King] #179329 01/21/11 03:42 AM
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Thanks for posting this quote. It's my favorite quote. I am going to share it with our wrestlers after weigh in tomorrow and before they hit the mat down here in Tulsa!


B. Star
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Sunflower Kids Wrestling Club
"Rivals on the mat, friends in life"
Re: Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt [Re: Paratroop] #179438 01/21/11 08:58 PM
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Some little known facts of Roosevelt and this speech:

Roosevelt wrestled:
"Not since US President Teddy Roosevelt has a world leader been associated with judo or other martial arts. Roosevelt had been involved in both boxing and wrestling. After witnessing a demonstration of judo by Yoshiaka Yamashita against a wrestler at the White House, Roosevelt began studying the art under this teacher, eventually becoming the first American to achieve the rank of brown belt. While Roosevelt may be the first modern day head of state to actively practice in the martial arts, Putin is certainly the first to achieve an advanced rank in martial arts."
http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=167

"The Man in the Arena" is actually an except taken from a much larger speech:
CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC
"The Man In The Arena"
Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

Enjoy...


Shane Koranda
Towanda, Ks.

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