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The Pain of Defeat
I won my last world championship in 1999. I think the rest of my career, I won maybe half a dozen events from then to the end of my career. You do get used to defeat and it's a different kind of heart really. Agassiz Book says that the pain of defeat is a bigger sensation than the thrill of winning. It's far more winning, I would take for granted. Defeat, I would suffer for days. But there's a difference between it sort of hurting, and you want to do something about it. And at the end of the career, when you get used to it, and it’s a kind more of a depression, it gets said