My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

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

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.