If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.