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. —“The Man in the Arena,” Theodore Roosevelt What is the author’s purpose in the passage? to persuade people that what is most important is to keep trying to inform people that it is especially important to get things right the first time to entertain people with funny examples of people failing