Credo of United States Judo Association

by Theodore Roosevelt

Twenty-Sixth President of the United States (1901-1909)

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or 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 sweat and dust and blood;

who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in worthy causes;

who at the best knows in the end of triumph of high achievement, and who at worst 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.