Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

When you’re under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer’s

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.