Rudyard Kipling's Poem ''If'' Read By Federer & Nadal

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream, and not make dreams your master;
If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, and, which is more, you'll be a Man my son.

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[kadivikram]

Great men residing a great poem.........doesn't get better than this.

[katieford44]

Great video, thanks for posting Nietje19, heres another quote which is really inspiring: Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

[kadivikram]

@imonasofa1 Apologize for the spelling mistake, however you got the point! cheers!

[imonasofa1]

@kadivikram its 'reciting' not 'residing'

[phatschtuff]

this is brilliant !!!

[TubelessMichelen]

@TheTc970 It is called democracy and freedom of speech, my friend... with all the respect! ;)

[TheTc970]

@TubelessMichelen so you think Nadal does not try. I respect the fact it is your opinion however it does not give you the rite to compare him to a child.

[TubelessMichelen]

@TheTc970 I respect the fact that you enjoyed the video, but I didn't. As simple as that...! Just expressing my personal opinion. Great men and great poem, but the choice makes us -or at least me- compare them, in a bad way. It's inevitable if you have ears!!! And for the last time... I'm just talking about the video, not the quality of the players!

Now, about my "high snobby level"... I'll take it as a compliment, my friend, because English is not my maternal language and yet... I try!

[TheTc970]

@TubelessMichelen it is HIS tennis play that got him to this postion not his english as a sportsman is it his responsibility to recite literature in a foreign language to your hign snobby level?

[philippmichel2]

ur guyz are the best



[jackindobox]

I used to type this poem in my typing test in the typing tutor, today my typing speed is 90 words per minute; :P but the last line of this poem alwayz brought that tear to the edge of my eye, but it never fall !!