This quote is in honor of all the great plays and players in this years NBA playoffs. I was having Word time today and this quote struck me and I thought of Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, and a lot of other really good players that get slacked by the media for one bad game. Anyways here it is.

It’s 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 and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph, and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

Posted on May 15th, 2006 by John
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