Showing posts with label defeat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label defeat. Show all posts

Saturday, July 3, 2010

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

Yesterday was a tough day to Brazil. We played beautifully in the first half, but failed miserably in the second, losing to the Dutch by 2-1. 

Today we have Argentina vs Germany, and Spain vs. Paraguay. Now that Brazil is out, I'm 150% behind Spain.

Tomorrow we have the 2010 Wimbledon final. In the tunnel that leads to Wimbledon's Centre Court, the players pass under two lines of poetry in Rudyard Kipling's ``If'' poem (the title of this post). Very inspiring for victories and defeats.

Here is the whole poem read by Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal: