"Professional athletes are a different species, whose sense of self and possibility do not often fit within the doubts and fears natural to the rest of us.
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"Professional athletes are a different species, whose sense of self and possibility do not often fit within the doubts and fears natural to the rest of us. But Rickey Henderson, the man who thought he could play baseball forever before he died at 65 on Friday night, stood even beyond his peers on the confidence scale.
I once asked him when he knew he had the talent to be on the same field with Reggie Jackson and Nolan Ryan, to play the same game Willie Mays and Henry Aaron played. To live at the altitude of the gods. As easily as telling the time, Rickey answered, 'Somewhere between fifth and sixth grade.'"
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