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There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.

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Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

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Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

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Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

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Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

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I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

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Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.

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There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.

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During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.

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I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: September 29th, 1956

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