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

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

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

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you.

I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.