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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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" I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship. "

" I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. "

" You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside. "

" Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. "

" I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week. "

" I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not. "

" 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. "

" To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. "

" I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure. "

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

" I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday. "

" My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar. "

" In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it. "

" I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world. "

" Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan. "

" All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. "

" The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front. "

" I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls. "

" My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that. "

" I started daily training at the age of 14. When I was 16 years old, I was running twice a day. "

" Football was not what I was put on this planet to do. "

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" I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent. "

" I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish. "

" Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic. "

" We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy. "

" There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. "

" When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies. "

" I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of Manchester United by me is seen as biased. "