This is where I started and this is what I've strived to get back to.
That's what I've strived for my whole career -- make the plays when the ball's hit to me".
"It's something I've strived for my whole life, really, trying to be the best that I can at anything, really," he said.
In following the ducks' illusory trail, he writes, "I've strived to raise, if only by a megapixel or two, the resolution of my own mental model of the world".
If I can do my bit, that will be what I've strived to accomplish in it.
"I've been an assistant for nigh on 13 years so it's something I've strived to get, now I'm here I plan to do a good job," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
It has become what I've strived for ever since.
I've never liked sports cliches and I've strived to avoid them.
All the contradictions and two-sided talk disheartens me greatly as I've strived to make sense of the confusion.
"I regret not getting into podcasting earlier," he says, "I've strived my entire career to have true creative control and I finally have it.
