am I doing this admin menu correctly?

Using the codex and about 4 other websites, I have been able to piece together my first admin menu for my theme. I wanted to be able to fill in an area of a page by editing text in the admin area. I got my form and admin area all set up. when I press save, it saves the data to the database. Then I have pulled the info out of the database like so

$myrows = $wpdb->get_row( "SELECT * from wp_pizzasite_options where option_name = 'download text'" );

$myrows->option_value;

I have that code in a page template. is there a better way of getting the information?