When I was around 21, someone told me, “Don’t look for trouble.” I try to follow that. But trouble is the easiest thing in the world to find.
When I was around 21, someone told me, “Don’t look for trouble.” I try to follow that. But trouble is the easiest thing in the world to find.
I recently started playing golf. Golf is a really wonderful game because there’s so much about it that’s like life—you’re never going to master it. It’s a hard lesson because you struggle to improve. And yeah, you’ll improve. But you’re never satisfied with your improvement. Every improvement is just another ledge to the one above you and you just keep trying to climb.
I always wanted to fly. When I was a kid I made airplanes out of paper and would dream that I could fly. I had a lot of falling dreams and I’d never hit the ground. I always somehow leveled out. I finally learned how in 2002.
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