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- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever…
- Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track…
- Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the…
- You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in…
- I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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