“I think a lot of people tend to take every win and every loss as some sort of play-by-play: if you win, you win, and if you lose, you lose. But I don't see life like that at all. There's a much bigger game going on, and if you step back from the play-by-play and look at the big picture, the ability to make decisions gets a whole lot less daunting.”

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