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like that.”
I can, for virtually every single photograph I have taken, I can tell you which direction I was
facing, what time of the day it was, who was with me, and what the picture background was,
camera settings. It's the same I think with people who replay say their favorite golf shot, or
their favorite ace during a tennis match that won the tournament, or the kick that won the game
in say football, or something like that.
“Absolutely, it is one of those things that make times in your life more vivid and continuing
to be more vivid with the passage of time.”
Just last week I asked some the people I work with, both in the operating room and in the
office, in your mind what sort of sports game do you replay in your mind, both as a great
memory of a particular event or something that you did repeatedly. Some people said slamming
a volley ball, others pitching a baseball. My own thing is kicking a rugby ball torpedo, like a
quarterback Hail Mary throw, drop ball shots and tackling. You have played a lot of sports in
your time, are there things that are part of your personal narrative in a sporting sense? I think it
is something much more that is men related.
“Certainly, I can remember some vividly, as though it were yesterday, some of the base hits
that I got, I mean how the ball came off the bat, what pitch it was, where it was, how it felt. For
some reason I don't quite remember outstanding defensive plays. From playing football, I
certainly can remember throwing, how some passes looked, I can remember intercepting points
of time during games that happened 45 years ago - I can see today as clearly as I saw it then,
Then others, not as much. I don't know exactly why it sticks in the mind so much. I have a
pretty good memory of the entire walk off base hits I ever had because there weren't exactly
that many of them. I also can remember even when I was 11 or 12 years old some hits that I got
that were just in a kid's game, they weren't a particular moment. I also can remember times
when I was hunting and how the birds were coming over, a lot of it was related to duck hunting
or goose hunting, and sort of how everything looked at that moment and not just in terms of
myself. I can remember vividly when one of my dogs was bringing back a bird, how he looked
when he was swimming through the water and everything like that and so I think that these
experiences do tend to add an intensity level to our life experiences that make them more
memorable.”
And as we get older, of course, those are the things that we re-run in our videos in our minds
and we enjoy. Of course, the people that we did it with, some no longer with us, brings back
memories. When you played at Stanford and with the coaches and so on, you played with some
very famous people who later went on to great professional sporting careers, any thoughts
about that?
“Of course, at that time I didn't know what was going to happen to them or me. All I knew
was that they seemed to be better than I was. But when I played in North Dakota probably the
person that became the most famous was Phil Jackson who is my age and was playing for a
town in the western part of North Dakota. In addition to being obviously a very good
basketball player in those days, seemed to be a pretty good baseball player too. Then when I
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