Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

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

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

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

The government should have something in place where, in school, they see what sport you are most suited for, and it should be mandatory that you do more of it in your curriculum.

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

India has plenty of talent. If they are imparted with proper training, the country will surely produce scores of wrestlers, better than me. I want more and more Indians to participate in the game.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

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.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.

I think we have very good facilities for the youth in Holland. We have very good youth coaches and I think that is some of the reasons that always Holland has very good football players.

When you go through the youth system you're always going in to do analysis work, looking at every way of improving and your coaches are always on top of you.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

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.

My only focus is to try to assess and to provide the players with better tools to perform.