"More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted"
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The subtext is about what survives after the scoreboard fades. Achievements are legible to everyone else; that “feeling” is legible only to the person inside the performance. Forget implicitly pushes back against how we narrate sports: as a ledger of titles, rankings, and career arcs. His version is experiential, almost anti-archival. You can’t fully preserve it, and you can’t outsource it to fans, journalists, or even video.
Context matters here: Forget came up in an era when tennis was becoming globally televised and increasingly commodified, yet his memory is stubbornly unmarketable. It also hints at why retired athletes often sound restless or melancholic. They don’t just miss competition; they miss access to that unlocked, near-mystical mode where the game feels slow and the body feels smarter than the brain. In that framing, “being your very best” isn’t a résumé line. It’s an internal weather system you spend a career trying to summon again.
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Forget, Guy. (n.d.). More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/more-than-specific-memories-of-achievements-for-158365/
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Forget, Guy. "More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/more-than-specific-memories-of-achievements-for-158365/.
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"More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/more-than-specific-memories-of-achievements-for-158365/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.





