Sublime

In real life people who encountered him often thought he was the most interesting person they’d ever met. She decided against media training—or anything that might make Sam seem less like Sam.

sense of entitlement

He understood that as a professional athlete his job was to parse the difference between the unlikely and the impossible.

Thom was used to being the center of attention at these events, or close to it, but usually that meant that he was the focus of admiration, envy, or fear. He honestly didn’t really care which of those feelings he inspired; they were all a form of power. Today, it felt like he was caught in a maelstrom of gossip, helpless to its whipsaw currents. He

What if there were a way, without being an athlete, to feel what athletes feel? To play all the time, instead of working? Or else to enjoy work so much that it becomes essentially the same thing.

Edward Hopper),

ecstatic.

quality endemic to all geniuses—he was like a great child.