Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday..

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 be. I went climbing three weeks before, ….

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the patt….

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was ….

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 seems now looking ba….

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down ….

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school ….

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I ap….

It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for th….

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where ….

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten..

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 fact slowing. If you don't keep ru….

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in E….