The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

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.

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

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

Athletics is a luxury.

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!

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.