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• ‟ Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

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• ‟ The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

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• ‟ Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

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• ‟ The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

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• ‟ I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

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• ‟ Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

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• ‟ I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

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• ‟ I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

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