A Quote by Phil Knight
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
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I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.
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David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.
I feel like MMA athletes are the best athletes in the world.
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I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.
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