This week, Rob Hanley, Clinical Director & Chartered Physiotherapist talks about his favourite motivational quote when working with
Success in any walk of life requires effort.
In order to achieve we must have passion, drive, and the commitment to achieve our goals.
I’ve always thought that challenges that life presents us and returning from pain and injury are really the same thing. We must sit down and work out what we want, what we are trying to achieve and then come up with a plan. We then work hard to implement that plan over time, with the patience and endurance for the bumps we meet along the way. It takes lots of persistence and patience and most of all, bucket loads of motivation.
The Man in the Arena
One of my favourite quotes that I use to help inspire my clients when they are recovering is “The Man in the Arena” from Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne in Paris, 23rd April, 1910
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.
I think this speech sums up well what we do here at Total Care Physio. We strive everyday to help you get back out there, to return to your arena, whatever and wherever that is.
We’re here to help you every step of the way, when you are doing well but most importantly on the days when you need a pick up. As Muhammad Ali, famously said
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights
We strive with you to help you win your fight.
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