"Professional athletes are in many ways our culture's holy men. They give themselves over to a pursuit to endure great privation and pain to actualize themselves at it, and enjoy a relationship to perfection that we admire, reward and love to watch, even though we have no desire to walk that road ourselves. In other words, they do it 'for' us, sacrifice themselves for our (we imagine) redemption."
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David Foster Wallace
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