And to all the doubters back in 2018, those who have never stepped up to any challenge, never claimed responsibility for anything, always happy to see others take the fall, know nothing about pressure, courage and commitment, have never even been a part of anything organised much less commit to it, yet have that scornfully negative outlook on everything, when next you have the urge to disparage the actions of men and women sincerely giving their best, remember this; it's my favourite of Theodore Roosevelt's. It's called "The 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."
