Man in the Arena

[THUMPER]

As I was listening to Steve Dennis trying to defend his cowardly attempt at trying to create controversy with the Cowboys with his baiting questions to Wade Phillips, what came to mind is part of a great speech by Teddy Roosevelt.

The whole speech is called, "Citizenship In A Republic" and was given nearly a hundred years ago in France but one section of this great speech has been pulled out and quoted many times and has even gotten its own title, "The Man In The Arena" and it its quite well with how I feel about the media in general but sports mediots in particular:

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.

If that doesn't describe today's "tabloid journalists" I don't know what does!

You can read the entire speech at: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html It is long but well worth the time to read through it.

 

[poke]

i love that ! thanks.

 

[Doomsday101]

As I was listening to Steve Dennis trying to defend his cowardly attempt at trying to create controversy with the Cowboys with his baiting questions to Wade Phillips, what came to mind is part of a great speech by Teddy Roosevelt.

The whole speech is called, "Citizenship In A Republic" and was given nearly a hundred years ago in France but one section of this great speech has been pulled out and quoted many times and has even gotten its own title, "The Man In The Arena" and it its quite well with how I feel about the media in general but sports mediots in particular:



If that doesn't describe today's "tabloid journalists" I don't know what does!

You can read the entire speech at: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html It is long but well worth the time to read through it.

Very good I enjoyed that. Thank You

 

[goliadmike]

Thanks Thumper!

 

[ethiostar]

Great quote and very nice post.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[AsthmaField]

Very true. That sums it up nicely, Thumper. Thanks.

 

[poke]

Thumper i have taken this quote and edited it to comply with sig rules and added it to my signature.
i hope you dont mind, if you were going to use it let me know and i will change mine.

thanks again for posting it.

 

[zrinkill]

Sounds like a very loud handful of posters as well.

 

[jay cee]

Great Post Thumper. That should be sent to all the mediots out there. But I doubt it would make a difference.

 

[THUMPER]

Great Post Thumper. That should be sent to all the mediots out there. But I doubt it would make a difference.

Yeah, unfortunately they could never hear it.