When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

I think it is good for youngsters to see me at 45 still jogging around the track. If me being here gives them a boost then thats great.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

Robert Fox is real good! Enough said!

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.