Lynn Davies Quotes

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It’s about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you’ve been taught.
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Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.
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U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.
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I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.
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It’s about lessons for life. It’s not just about winning either.
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One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries – they could become a very big market for us.
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People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.
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Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.
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You’ve got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you’ve got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
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You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
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The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics – it was a great memory.
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It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
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It’s important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.
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I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn’t have a ball at your feet.
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Sport and life is about losing. It’s about understanding how to lose.
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I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
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It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.
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People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.
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I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games – where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
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It’s not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
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I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.
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We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.
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We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
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Belief is such an important aspect of sport.
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I’ve been involved in sport right through my life.
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I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.
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It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today‘s society – there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.
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We’re focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
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Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.
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It’s not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
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One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.
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There’s so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the coaches, officials, governing bodies, and Sport Wales. It’s a real team effort, and it’s rightly called Team Wales.
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To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
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I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.
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