The road ahead or the road behind

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/pt/john_wooden_on_the_difference_between_winning_and_success.html
Eu já pensava dessa maneira que ele fala há algum tempo... mas o que o aluno(George Moriarty) dele (John Wooden) citou foi muito legal: caso você queira apenas ver a citação da poesia vá para 10:50, mas eu aconselho a ver o vídeo inteiro :-)

"Sometimes the fate must grin
as we denounce them and insist the only reason we can't win,
is the Fates themselves that miss.
Yet there lives on the ancient claim:
we win or lose within ourselves.
The shining trophies on our shelves
can never win tomorrow's game.
You and I know deeper down,
there's always a chance to win the the crow.
But when we fail to give our best,
we simply haven't met the test,
of giving all and saying none
until the game is really won;
of showing what is meant by grit;
of playing throug when others quit;
of playing throug, not letting up.
It's bearing down that wins the cup.
Of dreaming there's a goal ahed;
of hoping while our dreams are dead;
of praying when our hopes have fled.
Yet losing,
not afraid to fall,
if bravely we have given all.
For who can ask more of a man,
that giving all within his span
Giving all, it seems to me,
is not so far from victory
And so the fates are seldom wrong,
no matter how they twist and wind
It's you and I who make our fates,
we open up or close the gates
on the road ahead or the road behind"