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

The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

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

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

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

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.