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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
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The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
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The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.
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I started when I was seven years old so I was on 50, 60 cc Suzuki and then I went up to a Yamaha 125 and then my sister was 16 and she was racing a Harley Davidson 750.
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Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
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I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.
