It Was Hard Not To

I Think That The Relationship Between Two Top-level Athletes Who Are Rivals Is One Of The Most Fascinating Human Relationships To Explore. It's Always One Atom Away From Being A Tragedy.

There's What People Say, And There's What People Mean, And I Like To Explore The Difference Between The Two.

I Think That There's Something Extremely Beautiful About The Olympic Ideal And Its Motto - 'swifter, Higher, Stronger' - It's Such A Beautiful Motto, And It Celebrates Everything Which Is The Antithesis Of Death And Dissolution And Entropy.

It's Extremely Hard For Athletes To Accept What's Happened To Them Sometimes. It's Hard To Be Beaten By A Small Margin, And I've Spoken With Athletes Who, For Years Afterward, Have Been Tormented By The Knowledge That, Had They Done Something Ever So Slightly Different, They Could Have Been One-ten-thousandth Of A Second Quicker.

That Is The Trouble With Happiness-all Of It Is Built On Top Of Something That Men Want.