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" As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. "
Sportsman
Great
Enjoyed
" Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level. "
Peak
Back
Back Up
" Belief is such an important aspect of sport. "
Aspect
Important
Belief
" Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete. "
Will
Welsh
Our
" I am a sportsman, and I hate politics. "
Am
I Am
Politics
" I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president. "
I Am
Experience
Champion
" I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems? "
Friendship
Breakfast
Believe
" If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British. "
British
Two
Performance
" I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders. "
Felt
World
Going
" If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving. "
Achieving
You
Way
" I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great. "
Training
Skill
Me
" I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet. "
Day
Sports
Me
" I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left. "
Management
Journey
Best
" I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want. "
Politics
Play
Go
" I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's important to keep your muscle strength, as every decade you lose about 10% of this. "
Important
You
Training
" I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character. "
Think
You
Chance
" It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere. "
Positive
Together
Today
" It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either. "
Lessons
Either
Life
" It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught. "
Skills
Knowing
Learn
" It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder. "
Little
Stay
Year
" It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics. "
Bad
Talking
Idea
" It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly. "
Coach
You
Telling
" It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. "
Perseverance
Long
Enough
" It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final. "
Who
Jump
Guy
" I've been involved in sport right through my life. "
Through
Right
My Life
" Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right. "
Jump
Run
You
" My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan. "
Ken
Cliff
Heroes
" One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us. "
Us
Now
Big
" One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore. "
Young
Political
People
" People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability. "
Think
Become
Disability
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