Above the players entrance to Wimbledon’s famed Centre Court are inscribed words from the Rudyard Kipling poem “If:”
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same.” The poem concludes with, “… 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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Bears coach John Fox hasn't put those thoughts into stone anywhere around Halas Hall — yet — but he has used the sentiments to keep his football team from becoming unbalanced emotionally due to either winning or losing, both of which they have done in streaks this season.