If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

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.

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

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.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American.

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Fairness is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties busybodies can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

What I am after is the first impression I want to show all one sees on first entering the room what my eye takes in at first glance.

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Enterprise is better than ease.

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.