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

Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.

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

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

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.

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

Beating John Landy was my defining race.