good luck

[numberone]

I just want to wish everyone good luck today. Remember 3 very important things.

1. Stay healthy.

2. Stay positive. (Win or loose).

3. Have fun and enjoy this moment. Win or loose have good sportsmanship.

[neutral]

... and for any of you who may (unfortunately) wrestle your last match today - congratulations on the completion of a carrer that has required great love of the sport, tremendous commitment & devotion, an incredible amount of hard work, and a willingness to put yourself out there ...  while learning more about what being a team really is than many orther sports participants will ever even realize exist.

"The Man in the Arena" is about citizenship ... not wrestling - but it translates well to wrestling.  In case you haven't come accross it ...

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Man in the Arena

"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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910