“At the peak of a tremendous and victorious effort,  while the blood is pounding in your head, all suddenly becomes quiet with in you.  Everything seems clearer and whiter then ever before, as if great spotlights had been turned on.  At that moment you have the conviction that you contain all the power in the world, that you are capable of everything, that you have wings.  There is no more precious moment in life than this, the white moment, and you will work very hard for years just to taste it again.”

Yuri Vlasov