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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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Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
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The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the 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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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
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My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
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My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
