If the Teddy Roosevelt quote didn’t exist, social media would have had to invent it. You know the one, the “ man in the arena ” quote. The one that has shown up in more Facebook memes and Twitter posts than all those exhortations to live, laugh and love combined. “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.” John Kavanagh, the longtime coach to Artem Lobov and Conor McGregor , is the latest to lean on it in a Facebook post defending Lobov after his third straight loss at UFC Fight Night 138 on Saturday night. “If it’s just records you’re interested in, if someone’s win/loss record is as deep as your analysis is capable of then I’d stop reading now,” Kavanagh wrote the day after Lobov’s fight
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