Lynn Davies

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

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.

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.

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.

I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.

To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

Sport and life is about losing. It’s about understanding how to lose.

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.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

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.

It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

I've been involved in sport right through my life.

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

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.

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

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.

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.