I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

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

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I'm running because we need change.

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.

The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.