David Foster Wallace quote: The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at ...

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.

~ David Foster Wallace ~

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