""You can call it the buzz," he told BBC Sport. "You could call it adrenaline. You could even call it addiction. "It is an addiction for professional athletes at the highest level, to look for the feelings they can try and explain to people who don't live it themselves. "People say 'you are doing the best job in the world but when it stops you will feel it'. So, you try and make the best of it."
""People say 'you are doing the best job in the world but when it stops you will feel it'. So, you try and make the best of it. The buzz is incomparable to anything else you can try. Nothing can be the same. "It doesn't change. I was the first one into training when I was 21 and I am still the first one in now I am 34. I do the extra work and probably look after myself more than I did before.""
Fabio Borini, 34, has played for Chelsea, Roma, Liverpool, Sunderland, AC Milan and Sampdoria and earned an Italy cap in a 2012 friendly against the USA. He arrived early at Salford City's Littleton Road training ground to prepare for a possible FA Cup start against Lincoln and sat training in the cold, showing patient commitment. Borini describes an addictive 'buzz' and adrenaline that drives elite athletes to pursue feelings others cannot understand, and he continues to be first into training, doing extra work and looking after himself more than before. The PFA ran pre-season camps for out-of-contract players and Salford assistant manager Alex Bruce invited him to continue training there.
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