.I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition - that’s what I’ve always wanted..

Failure is not terrible; what's terrible is not daring to try.

I was messed up for a long time.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.