Citizenship in a Republic

And then when it's all over, especially with, you know, in games where tough calls are made or a tough play is made or a decision is made by a coach or official, it's really hard and people question it and argue about, oh, he didn't know what he was doing, yada, yada, yada.

I go back to a writing that I read that was done by Theodore Roosevelt, and it's called The Man in the Arena.

It says, 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.

Every mistake I make from the breast box, You know, besides Coach Pratt.

Coach Pratt gets on to me all the time.

But other than that, you know, I just – I think the man in the arena is a great lesson for – it reminds me of what we're here for.

Yeah, there's no doubt.

It is about having the courage to be vulnerable and how that transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead and I'd insert run a business.

It's based around her 12 years of research and the quote, The Man in the Arena, by Theodore Roosevelt, the speech from Sorbonne Paris in April 23, 1910.

It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strongman stumbles, or whether doer of deeds could have done 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

We don't overcome vulnerability by becoming invulnerable.

We increase our capacity to experience vulnerability and still take action.

That's where the man in the arena quote fits so beautifully because courage isn't the absence of vulnerability.

Actually, vulnerability is part of what courage requires as we step into the arena.

Um, when I was super deep into it, you know, trying to, to figure out, "Hey, am I gonna be able to do this?" I wrote down, uh, people can laugh at this all they want.

I wrote down the entire Man in the Arena, Teddy Roosevelt, uh, my guy TR-

Do you know it by heart?

... uh, speech right here.

I have been admitted.

Do I need to read The Man in the Arena for you again, my original poem? No, you

need to steal some saying.

You could have done something.

Steal from who? The Man in the Arena.

Can you name who wrote that? No.

Ha! The man in the arena.

It was the man.

And it very much comes from a bit of Brene Brown.

And I think it's original Roosevelt quote called The Man in the Arena.

And I think for me, go and find somebody getting their ass kicked in the arena.

That's what you need.

With knowledge on how you fight.

So everybody comes in fresh, and you are the man in the arena standing there in the middle of the ring, and then who's next? Who's next? Who's next? And it is, it's intense.

And all the boxers that are listening to this, they know it's intense, especially our first responder boxers.

We don't do this every day.

My first fight I fought, I drew.

So I didn't win and I didn't lose.

And anybody that fired on the mental health side of boxing, you have to learn how to take losses and you have to learn how to take draws and you have to learn that at the end of the day, you're the man in the arena and you gave it your all.

And I think...

Let's go back to 1910, when Teddy Roosevelt delivered a speech in Paris, France.

It's become known famously as the man in the arena speech, and Here's part of what Roosevelt said.

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.