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, ….

In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take….

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….

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor ….

Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seem….

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….

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

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic care….

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with ….

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello..

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 ….

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion….

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens..

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the cou….

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the ….

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record..

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even ….

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, w….

From the public's perspective, they like to see guys that go out there and stand. Now, if you happen to be one of those two athletes that are standin….

LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a stude….

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I….