Nationals' pivotal Game Four versus the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2012 National League Division Series which was won on a walk-off home run by the Nationals' Jayson Werth. Since his days at the University of Pennsylvania, DeRosa would turn to those words before important games. American scholar Brené Brown quotes the excerpt in the Netflix special The Call to Courage; she also used a somewhat abbreviated version of the quote in her March 2012 TED talk "Listening to Shame," and subsequently as the inspiration for the title of her book, Daring Greatly (2012). When then Ferrari Formula One driver Jean Alesi was about to start the last lap of the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix (which would become his only Grand Prix win), then ESPN commentator Bob Varsha used parts of Roosevelt´s speech, saying that Alesi looked a while like being the man Roosevelt had talked about. The "Man in the Arena" passage was used in a 2015 ad for Cadillac, ending with "dare greatly". At the 2016 Democratic National Convention President Barack Obama cited the speech in his endorsement speech of Hillary Clinton. Lindsey Stirling's 2016 album release Brave Enough features a song titled "The Arena". The inspiration for this song comes from this speech. The music video for the track also starts out with a quotation from this speech. LeBron James has #ManInTheArena written on his shoes. During the United States Naval Academy's Plebe Summer, incoming freshmen are required to memorize "The Man in the Arena". At the annual CaseIT MIS Case Competitions, Dr. Peter Tingling, Associate Dean at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, retold the story of the "Man in the Arena" in the opening ceremony to inspire competitors. See also If— The Strenuous Life References External links 1910 speeches Speeches by Theodore Roosevelt