Tom Brady had fans in a frenzy after posting a cryptic Instagram story on Tuesday, a week after the news dropped that his ex-wife Gisele Bündchen was pregnant.
The football star posted a picture holding a plaque in his hand, inscribed with a Teddy Roosevelt quote all about failure and strength.
“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 quote began.
“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 and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.”
The quote continued to thank the man who “strive[s] to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”