Motivation Quote by Graeme Le Saux

Le Saux is doing something quietly subversive for a modern athlete: praising slowness. In an era where the default story about technology is frictionless progress, he concedes the obvious benefits of digital (convenience, instant feedback) and then pivots to what those benefits erase. That structure matters. By granting digital its wins up front, he inoculates himself against the crank stereotype and makes the critique feel earned rather than nostalgic.

The key word is "finesse". He is not arguing that film is objectively sharper or more advanced; he is defending a craft logic. A roll of film forces intention: limited frames, delayed gratification, a workflow that rewards anticipation and composure. For an athlete whose career was built on discipline and timing, that appeals to muscle memory. The subtext is that ease can cheapen attention. When everything is immediate, you stop looking carefully because you can always take another shot.

"Superimposed feel" is a surprisingly vivid complaint. It suggests not just an aesthetic difference but a psychological one: digital images can feel layered with processing, presets, and algorithmic polish, like reality with an extra skin pulled over it. Film, in his telling, is more embodied and more honest because its imperfections are physical, not computational.

Contextually, this lands as a broader cultural mood: a late-analog generation watching their sensory world get optimized. Le Saux isn’t rejecting technology; he’s mourning the loss of texture, the kind that makes an image (or a moment) feel fully lived rather than efficiently captured.