"I am maybe seen as a bit of a throwback to modernism, and I don't deny that," he told me.
Edelman was a star high school quarterback in California, but, as he put it: "I was maybe 5-7, 160 pounds, so junior college was the only option.
"I don't think it should ever be the goal, but I had no money as a kid and so I was maybe a bit more motivated than the rest.
If I could meet my future self I'd expect them to be... just the same as I am now – maybe with a few less pounds on the hips!
It sparks my creativity," he wrote, including an image with this statement: "Step into my shoes and walk the life I'm living and if you get as far as I am, just maybe you will see how strong I really am".
One of the hardest things was that he was the same age as I was – he was maybe six months older than I am.
One of the hardest things was that he was the same age as I was; he was maybe six months older than I am.
Apart from the fact that as far as I am concerned, and maybe it's naïve, my career is not in any way attached to the way I look".
In fact, if it weren't for WIDR, I probably wouldn't be doing as well in school as I am now, and maybe wouldn't be going to school altogether.
"I love riding, I love my job and, like every sportsman, I just wished it was never going to happen," he said earlier in the week, adding: "I've always lived in the fear of carrying on too long, or maybe not being as successful as I was, or maybe not as good as I was".
