Rugby Player with Poem Tattoo
29 May 2010, 05:01 PM
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Rugby Player with Poem Tattoo
I've just been watching the rugby league on the tv. Wigan versus Leeds. The commentator made reference to a tattooed poem on one of the players backs. She read the poem out loud, and I missed it!
Does anyone know what it is?
Does anyone know what it is?
30 May 2010, 05:04 PM
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It was Jamie Peacock of Leeds and was IIRC something along the lines of 'it's better to do something and not be so successful than to criticise those trying from afar'. Was quite long winded, sure Wiki will have it now.
Not really a poem, more along the lines of 'what does not kill you, will make you stronger' type saying.
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Just googled it: A Teddy Roosevelt speech 'Man in the Arena'
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.
Not really a poem, more along the lines of 'what does not kill you, will make you stronger' type saying.
dnc
Just googled it: A Teddy Roosevelt speech 'Man in the Arena'
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.
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