And, yes, when it comes to Lou I am a minor folk hero. In my travels leading up to the match I heard so many negative Lou stories and wishes that I would beat him. I did let those people down but both before and after the match many of them congratulated me for standing up to him.
I doubt you will ever know what that feels like. I take the risk and when I fail I get up and try again. That's how I live my life.
Maybe the following words are completely alien to you but perhaps you might understand them;
"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 doubt you will ever know what that feels like. I take the risk and when I fail I get up and try again. That's how I live my life.
Maybe the following words are completely alien to you but perhaps you might understand them;
"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."