The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. That state seemed so intriguing that I started also looking for it in chess players, in rock climbers, in dancers and in musicians. I expected to find substantial differences in all their activities, but people reported very similar accounts of how they felt.
Most people look so much forward to being home, relaxing.
Then they get home and don't know what to do. I felt I could not be hurt. The legendary hitter Ted Williams has said that sometimes he could see the seams on a pitched baseball. It seems as if I had all the time in the world to watch the receivers run their patterns, and yet I know the defensive line is coming at me just as fast as ever. All you can do is learn to remove obstacles in its way.