Tiger Woods said he was chasing one question his whole career. How good can I be.

This episode traces it from a boy studying Jack Nicklaus's milestones on his bedroom wall, to a junior shut out of clubhouses who changed his shoes in the parking lot and asked only for the course record.

His father Earl taught him that nothing is given and everything is earned, and that idea became a standard he never let go of.

It shows up in the decision that made no sense to anyone else, rebuilding a swing that had just won the Masters by twelve shots.

And it echoes in other greats like Michael Phelps and Rafael Nadal, who measured themselves the same way.

This is a study of the mindset behind the most dominant golfer the sport has seen, and the price that came with it.

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Rafael Nadal won 14 French Open titles, more clay titles than anyone who has ever played the game. People reach for the word talent. Nadal says it was suffering, and learning to enjoy it.

This episode is built on three words from Christopher Clary's book The Warrior — suffer, persist, surpass. It follows the boy his uncle Toni trained to treat every problem as solvable, the competitor who raced only against himself, and the champion who at 30 lost trust in his own hands and came apart quietly, then kept finding his way back onto the court.

The warrior was never the man who never wavered. It was the one who broke where nobody could see it and returned anyway.

Maradona was 17 when he was left out of the 1978 World Cup squad. He cried more that day than at any other point in his life. Then he made one decision — bronca, anger, would be his fuel.

This episode follows that fuel from a two-metre room in Fiorito with eight kids and no running water, through the World Cup, Napoli, Barcelona, and the moment it all started to fall apart. The same rage that made him the greatest footballer in the world was the thing he could never switch off.

He closes the book with one line. After everything — I am still me. I am El Diego.