The Will To Win Speech

Speech Text

If you want a thing bad enough

To go out and fight for it,

Work day and night for it,

Give up your time and your peace

And your sleep for it,

If only desire of it

Makes you quite mad enough

Never to tire of it,

Makes you hold all other things tawdry

And cheap for it,

If life seems all empty

and useless without it

And all that you scheme

And you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,

Fret for it, Plan for it,

Lose all your terror of God

or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that

thing that you want

With all your capacity,

Strength, and sagacity,

Faith, hope, and confidence,

stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty,

famished and gaunt,

Nor sickness nor pain

Of body and brain

Can turn you away from

the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim you

besiege and beset it,

You'll get it.