The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.

And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Be a light unto oneself

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

Urgency is insecurity.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.