When I see coaches, school teachers, police officers, soldiers, high school athletes, etc., receive criticism, I am often reminder of my favorite quote. It was taken from part of a speech that Teddy Roosevelt made in 1910. I think it deals very well with situations were people criticize others but would not step into their shoes or who will criticize from the outside. I have no problem with the right to criticize. It is an important right however some people that criticize might do well to step back for a moment and "walk a mile in my shoes" before making comments. The passage from the speech is called: MAN IN THE ARENA. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 the dust and 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 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 or defeat." THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Paris Sorbonne,1910)