re: Les Miles -in the arena!

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But I'd love to hear Les Miles give that speech

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OK, here it is...
Certainly we don't believe that the critic who is in an immediate position of review is the one who counts; nor is the man, who points out how the strong man stumbles, one of significant emphasis; and I can tell you with sincere deception where the doer of deeds did deeds that needed doing different. We have the distinct impression that the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. We are the man in the arena. And when you're there, we're not here, and we believe the credit is his whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; whose multiplicity of personnel creates certainly some of the issues; who errs, who comes short again and again, because the memory of the day is elevated by all that other stuff; I don't see it; it draws no feel. He who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement? I don't think you can hide when there is a national enthusiasm for a specific game. 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. Just so you know!