Fedor Gorst

The world goes away when you're on that table.

When you're playing, the world goes away.

That's what I like about archery and that's what I like about pool.

They have the same quality to them in that to do it correctly is so difficult that it requires all of your mind.

I agree.

I totally agree with you.

And unlike chess, which also requires all of your mind, pool has the added element that you have to execute.

You have to pull it off under pressure with a shaky hand.

Yeah.

Well, I think it's just its own thing.

Well, it's an old thing for sure.

It's its own thing.

It's very different than any of those other things, even though I don't play either one of them.

It's very different than any of those other things.

And when people get into it, man, it takes their whole fucking life over.

I remember my manager had to have a conversation with me once when I lived in New York.

It was like, I think you're spending more time playing pool than you are in your career.

I'm like, fuck, he's right.

He's right.

I took a whole year off.