Man up

Through my experiences in playing sports all my life, I've learned a lot about toughness. I started playing football and baseball as young as possible, and I picked up my third sport later on.  I could go off on a lot of rabbit trails with this topic of toughness in sports, so I want to keep this series of blogs as organized as I can. I want to work through a well-known quote from a well-known ...

"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.” Rosevelt is saying that the credit does not belong to the people he describes above, but to the people he goes on to describe.  Roosevelt is saying these types of people don't know what it means to be tough. In sports, these people look like the criti...