Words matter. These are the best Lynn Davies Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.
It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today’s society – there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.
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.
I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.
To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.
We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.
People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.
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.
Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.
I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
It’s not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
Long jumping sounds simple – you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.
Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.
Belief is such an important aspect of sport.
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.
We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
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.
The important thing for the future is that our schools and clubs have more and better coaches and teachers to ensure that all that enthusiasm, spirit and talent is harnessed and developed.
You’ve got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it’s important to keep your muscle strength, as every decade you lose about 10% of this.
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 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’ve been involved in sport right through my life.
I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn’t have a ball at your feet.
It’s important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.
Sport and life is about losing. It’s about understanding how to lose.
If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.
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 was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.
I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.
It’s about lessons for life. It’s not just about winning either.
It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
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.
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.
You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
It’s not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.
I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games – where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.
