Quote from Theodore Roosevelt
Know what’s victory or defeat

I hadn’t many time to write this week, so there is a little quote from Theodore Roosevelt that I found somewhere on the internet 1 or 2 weeks ago that I want to share with you:

“It is not the critic, who counts, or how the strong man stumbled and fell, or where the 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 and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause; and if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that he’ll never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

* Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of The Wars
A WWI story

I’m finishing reading The Wars by Timothy Findley. It’s the story of Robert Ross a nineteen-year-old Canadian officer during the WWI. I want to share a quote from this book with you. Lady Juliet D’Orsey to Timothy Findley cited it during an interview done around 1970. Lady Juliet was talking of her brother Clive to Robert:

“Someone once said to Clive: do you think we will ever be forgiven for what we’ve done? They meant their generation and the war and what the war had done to civilization. Clive said something I’ve never forgotten. He said: I doubt we’ll ever be forgiven. All I hope is — they’ll remember we were human beings.”

What is important? The attitude!

The university as restarted. The northern life in Canada is also restarted. Everybody is going back to there normal activities after summer. People are coming back at the Thai boxe courses. Half-new, half-old, the normal schedule is restarting.

In a year, you see many people coming to try the sport. Some like, some don’t. However, what’s really interesting is to talk to them. This week a new special girl (lawyer of the law of woman (“droit de la femme” in French, I try a literal translation here)) has come to try. She comes 2 times and every time she said to anybody, “What’s important is The Attitude”. Why she was saying this to everybody? I think it’s because she just restarted training and that she had a lack of cardio and what was important at this moment for her was The Attitude.

I just think about it. Why now? Dunno. The thing that I know is that she was right. She was right to say that what is important is The Attitude. The Attitude is at every level. If you want performance and results, you need attitude. In training? You need attitude. In fighting? You need attitude. You had bad news? You need attitude. Finally, she was right. What’s important is The Attitude.