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Elvis liked this famous speech and had a framed
copy of it hanging in his private office
upstairs at Graceland:
The Man Who Counts
It is not the
critic who counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man tumbled, 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, sweat
and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and
comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions and 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 know neither
victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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