1 Read the quotation. Then discuss the questions below in pairs or small groups.
‘If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same …’
These words from the well-known poem If–, by Rudyard Kipling, appear above the players’ entrance to the Centre Court at Wimbledon Tennis Club.
1
Impostors are people who pretend to be something they are not. What do you think the poet means by saying that triumph and disaster (or victory and defeat) are impostors?
2
How could you respond to victory and defeat in the same way?
3
What message do you think the quotation is trying to give to the tennis players who play on the Wimbledon Centre Court?