If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
“I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!”
“All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.”