I Spent Decades Making Sure I Owed No One
The first time we rented a holiday house with a pool, I doubted whether it was the right call, because we were only 15 minutes away from the coast anyhow.
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The Worst Salesman Ever
I had spent the three years waiting tables in a nightclub. It took me a year to realize that the longer I stayed, the more it would cost me later,
The Goal Line
Once you take championships and tournaments out of the equation after decades of finding motivation in them, it becomes incredibly difficult to find a reason to work out. Add the
The Diversion
The most useful teacher I’ve had this past year has been my phone. Oddly enough, it taught me the most when I didn’t pick it up. Before this
Inside the Good Part
Last Friday I walked past a few hundred high school seniors who had no idea they were inside the good part of their lives.
The Guy With the Gap
I used to walk into the pre-match meeting and high-five everyone in the room. Take the piss out of someone, get it back twice as hard. The room
10 am on a Tuesday
I took my son to an appointment this morning and had an hour to kill. We're planning to build a house, so I decided to drive around the
What the sky looked like
Eighteen years chasing a championship. We won. I raised my arms, looked at the sky, drove home, and went to bed. The feeling was relief, not joy.
Before you can afford to say no
A Lamborghini drove past me last week. Bright green, loud, impossible to ignore. My first thought was immediate: I would never drive that. I've had that reaction for
The boy between the buildings
I walked past the apartment blocks where I used to wander as a kid, looking for a girl to love me. I recognized the feeling. I'm still doing it.
Before I Could Predict
I played my best rugby before I knew enough to overthink it. Then I learned the game and the predictions killed the thing that made me good.
The Room After the Match
A room full of teammates who'd known him for over a decade. He died four days earlier. Nobody was sad.