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.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

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

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

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

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event which was planned in which races were run, and I simply just won these by a considerable margin

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