The Credit Belongs to the Man Who is Actually in the Arena

Wrestling season starts tonight!

We begin with Fridley (Gregory won't have a tournament until January).

Fridley home vs. Chisago Lakes and Benilde-St. Margaret's

Tomorrow we have an Invitational at Fridley:

Irondale
Hopkins
Minneapolis Washburn
Mound-Westonka
Minneapolis Henry
North
Champlin Park

We were in the wrestling room last night for practices and the following hangs on the wall there and I wanted to share:

“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 and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt