“If I have a slightly better position, and I'm improving my position, then all the tactics are hovering like potential energy.”— Josh Waitzkin, amazon.com
“Greg has an interesting way, unique to New Mexico, of recharging his batteries. He grew up with a strong sense of local history, and one of his favorite hobbies is 'ghost towning,' where you get maps and track down old ghost towns in the New Mexican wilderness. 'It's incredible, these abandoned town…”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“[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.”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“'Only an animal does useful things,' he said at last, after a long silence. 'An animal gets food, finds a place to sleep, tries to keep comfortable. But I wanted to do something that was not useful, not like an animal at all. Something only a human being would do.'”— Gerard d'Aboville , amazon.com
“We choose things that are against our own best interests because the freedom to make that choice is more important than those interests.”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com