re: Les Miles: The Man in the Arena

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"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."

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Judging by the title I opened this thread expecting something schmaltzy and irrelevant. But this quote is actually very appropriate.

Sometimes some of the posters on here remind me of that guy or girl they have in most offices who is always pointing out how others should do their work but never seem to be doing their own work.

I think a lot of these posters would benefit from getting involved in competitive endeavors themselves - softball league, basketball league, coach kids' sports, heck join a bowling league.