You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.
I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.
It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.
I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score.
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