![]() One shall leave the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club a champion before the world. There’s a reason that Kipling’s verse greets the competitors at Wimbledon before they step out onto the centre court.Īfter the tournament one player will face triumph and the other disaster. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,Īnd-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son! If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too If you can keep your head when all about you ![]() The final thing that the competitors see before they battle for the most prestigious tennis trophy of all.Īs an example of Victorian-era Stoicism, Kipling goes on to say that: These same words appear above the doors to Wimbledon’s Centre Court. If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same. ![]() In 1895, the Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling composed the poem “If-,” which later went on to become one of the most popular poems in Great Britain. ![]()
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