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When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.

— Butch Trucks

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

— Lykke Li

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

— Bill Lee

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

— Tony Parker

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.

— Mark Knopfler

My brain is just always going and going and going.

— Nicholas Brendon

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

— David Soul

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

— Ornette Coleman

✗Opposing Perspectives

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

— D'Brickashaw Ferguson

When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

— J. R. Martinez

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

— Simon McBurney