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.
Theodore Roosevelt
April 23, 1910
There are those who depend on luck & those who rely on skill. The skilled have achieved the spirit of knowledge, for luck is a fickle mistress. But skill; skill is the fighters devoted lover.
The path to triumph is paved with peril. But the true warrior knows that if an obstacle in the road cannot be bent…it must be broken. Never retreating, always moving forward; the battlefield is this master's canvas.
The only way for a man to step out from the shadow of another, is for he himself to cast a shade twice its size. A true champion does not worry about filling another man's shoes; he concentrates instead on growing into his own.
When the stranger came to town, precious few knew his name. But before he would depart, none would ever forget it. A champion was born.
True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart - Rickson Gracie