my man in the arena

Some have said that David has added responsibility in his family because he is the oldest. I believe it's because he is a man of integrity. David is a guy you can trust, a guy you can count on to do the hard things. And he has done very hard things, while others coach and criticize from the sideline, David is the man in the arena. He is not perfect, but he is present.

“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." 

                                                

Theodore Roosevelt