#intoxication

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ↗

— John Dryden

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