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!

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.

Athletics is a luxury.

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

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.