When it's all said and done, I just want to say, "I gave it my best shot."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

I just wanted a shot to win in life.

"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 in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, 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 have never known either victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt

This is dedicated to my foxhole buddies, to the people who inspired me, to my friends who have supported my dreams, to the people who came and quit, and to myself. The price to pay for the feeling I get when I look in the mirror knowing that I have made it this far is something money can't buy.