Linford Christie Quotes

The great thing with Usain Bolt is he fell into great coaching, so his talent was exceptional from Day 1. You can coach technique and structure, but not talent.

Africa has proven to produce some of the greatest athletes in the world, and it's a joy to be able to help grow that talent and create a space for African youth to learn.

I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

We want to give deep insight into sports at all levels and bring the viewer inside the journey for an entirely new perspective.

There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.

I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

We are making strides in educating our athletes.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.

I'm training at Phase 1 Sports in Las Vegas, and it's a very high-end training facility for a lot of top-level athletes. I have been able to add a lot of power and the endurance to keep that power going. I've always been powerful, but the muscle conditioning I've been able to add has been a tremendous amount of help.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

I remember when I was a kid rugby players were some big guys that drunk a lot of beer but now they have proper training programs and diets and all that. And the pioneers of all that is bodybuilding.