Michael Foley

I think it's part of our DNA, almost.

We're a small country, we're a young country, we've limited capacity, limited facilities when it comes to sport, and that breeds limited ambition.

So even McElroy himself, I think, has talked over the last 24 hours about people, and not in a negative way, but kind of saying people had doubted his dreams.

People had doubted how big he was thinking when he was younger.

And that really reminded me again of Ronnie Delaney, who used to tell a story about before he went to America and really started his career, how his father could not make head or tail of this guy who was saying, I'm going to be the world's greatest athlete.

I'm going to win a gold medal at the Olympics.

And he just did not live in an environment or a community that could understand that or take that.

And I think in a way,

We don't really, like McElroy is so enormous.

Like McElroy is such a huge sporting personality, sporting figure.

He's almost too big for us to bear, you know?

Like he literally lived in a town called Jupiter.

You know what I mean?

It's so far.

What he's doing, what he's achieved and how he comports himself.

I mean, you talked earlier about the guys who are following him just to watch him.

It's so far removed from our understanding.

Of, you know, what ambition can be and what people can achieve.

I think that's changing as time goes on.

But certainly his generation or the generation that grew up maybe just behind him, I think we have a hard time figuring out how he's almost otherworldly to us, I think.