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"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
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"Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression."
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"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."
"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to."
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"So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed."
"When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself."
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