"Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them."
"If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know."
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Source: Confessions of a Conjuror. Book by Derren Brown, 2009.
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