I don't know how many of you listening to me have ever seen a prizefight. You know, you can learn a great deal from a fight because the prize ring is much like life. The minute you step into the ring, you can expect to start getting your lumps, and that goes on until you're knocked out or you knock the other fellow out. If you stick your chin out, you're set up to be floored. If you let your guard down, look out, you are in trouble. When you are knocked down, there is nobody who can help you but yourself, and you keep remembering that if you stay down you're licked. If you can get up, even one more time, there's another round ahead.
Boy, isn't that like living? From the time you step into the ring of life until they count you out, you get your lumps and although you know that if you drop your guard and lead with your chin, you are set up for a dive, you do it time after time. The funny part of it is that you never learn, no matter how old you get. Somehow you keep thinking you can't be hurt, but time and again you are, and no matter how many times you're hit, you never get used to it.
Each new blow is just as painful as the last. But there is one thing you must never forget. In life, as in the ring, you are only licked if you don't get up. If you can just struggle to your feet one more time, you get another chance. So buddy, if they have a nine count on you, shake your head and struggle to your feet and start swinging. But the next time, keep your chin in and your guard up. Who knows, maybe the next round will be your round.
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