ego

“I will,” I said with a hint of defiance — and honestly, a touch of ego.

"I used to have an alter ego when I first got into the team," Knight tells BBC Sport.

"An adrenaline rush, an ego boost, a full sense of worth, a selfish gratification with no rewards, at cost to others. What I lost, what we have lost, cannot be found nor replaced."

One senior source said he was: "A Boris-sized ego, but without the strategic thought."

Still, his decision about seeking a second term shouldn’t “have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition,” she concludes in an observation that grabbed headlines upon its publication in the Atlantic excerpt.