It was an incredible feeling to get the chance to come play SURVIVOR: ALL-STARS again. I would have like to have played the game longer, but it's just incredible to be selected as one of the all-time elite SURVIVOR players. It was very special to get a chance to come out here and compete with some of the greatest SURVIVOR players of all time. It's just sad to me that I didn't get an opportunity to go up against the best of them, especially Richard Hatch.
I don't think I really learned anything new about myself in the 12 days I was out here. I learned a little bit more of what my body can take as far as punishment goes, but I feel great right now. I feel about as good as I did the first day I was out here. So, I think that the tribe was foolish to get rid of me, because I think I could still be an asset.
Right now, it's a little bit of a humbling experience. I thought that I might be, in fact, the greatest SURVIVOR player to every play. But it's hard to come in to play SURVIVOR with people that already know your strengths and weaknesses. If these were 16 or 18 strangers, I am sure that I would still be in the game, but people knew what I did last time too well, and I was a victim of my own success, I think. Apparently, the player got played, but I think it was for the wrong reasons.
I don't know if my tribe is going to live to regret my early demise, but I have a feeling that nobody from my tribe, except maybe Big Tom, is going to have a lot of success in this game. The biggest disappointment for me is not getting to play the game. I want to play SURVIVOR: that was what I wanted to do in the first place; that's why I came back again. I wanted to have my chance to prove that I was the best SURVIVOR player, but being taken out this early and not exactly knowing the reasons why I was taken out? I don't think I had gotten in any fights with anybody. I didn't ruffle any feathers. I thought I was a help around camp. From what I know right now, I think the only reason I was taken out is because of my past reputation.
Right now, I don't think I have really hard feelings against the guys. Alicia and Amber I was annoyed with from before we came to Tribal Council, and I don't feel any different about them either way, but Sue and Big Tom and, I'm sure, Boston Rob, will end up throwing a few back, But he did shake my hand and he gave me his word on that, so it's a little early in the game to be breaking that kind of word, I thought. It just goes to show you that all the stops are pulled out on the ALL-STAR.
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