“[Amazing athletes] are at peace with failure or success; as [Peter] Schjeldahl wrote, they take 'an impersonal joy' in what they do. They see themselves from the outside, as impersonal constructs, which may lead to the oft-ridiculed referencing themselves in the third person.”
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“When you look in the mirror, Jay, I hope you can live with what you see.”
“I feel... lost and alone sometimes. I feel so different than everyone around me, like you…”
“Things here have changed. Feels like the more they change the more they stay the same.”
“What you did and didn't do that saved me. You may not believe it, but it saved me.”