“At the end of the day, if you prepare yourself and do your job and you feel like you’ve done it to the best of your ability, who cares what people say? … Theodore Roosevelt man, the man in the arena. “If you’re worried about what people are saying about you, then I think that’s just the wrong focus,” he said. Meanwhile, LeBron James told reporters in 2018 that he lives by Roosevelt’s “man in the arena” mentality: It’s no wonder, then, that the phrase has been adopted so often in pop culture, particularly among athletes.Īfter the success of The Last Dance, a documentary series that chronicled the career of Michael Jordan, Tom Brady decided to do one of his own.īrady’s covers all of his Super Bowl experiences, from his first appearance in 2002 to his 2021 win with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In his unique way, Roosevelt emphasized perhaps the most important thing for any man to remember:

Tough, but fair. Eloquent, but plainly spoken. The quote, of course, is quintessential Roosevelt: 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. 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 Man in the Arena Quote The Most Famous Paragraph from Teddy Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” Speech

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