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I have always eaten well.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Eaten
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I am there for the athletes I coach.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athletes
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Robert Fox is real good! Enough said!
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Enough Said
Foxes
Real
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I know what it takes to get to the top.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Knows
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I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Racism
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My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athlete
First Love
Love Is
Love Love Is Will
Love Love Is Always
Sport
Love Will Always
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I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Coaches
Establishment
Coach
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But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Thinking
Too Much
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I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Successful
Thinking
Athletes
Respond
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Regardless of what I've ever done or will ever do, I'll always be black.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Regardless
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I'm a very opinionated person and when I feel something I have to say it.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Opinionated
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When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Competing
Trained
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I love being in the garden, and my 'chilling-out room' is almost like being out there.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Garden
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When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Block
Round
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As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Buttons
Athletes
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There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athlete
Rain
Sport
Shine
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I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Coaches
Guy
Coach
Work Day Hard
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I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Feels
Things To Do
Athletes
Better Things
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If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Motivational
Athlete
Criticise
Trying
Alternative
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I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Cleaning
Garden
Paint
Ironing
Wallpaper
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When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athletics
Competing
Nutritionist
Offered
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Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Life Change People
Gifts
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What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Honour
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When I was competing, I cut out red meat but only because I felt it took too long to digest, so I stuck to chicken and fish.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Competing
Meat
Red Meat
Chicken
Digest
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I grew up until I was seven in Jamaica with my grandmother, who I still think of as the greatest person I have known in my life.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Jamaica
Seven
Life My Life Person
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I think it is good for youngsters to see me at 45 still jogging around the track. If me being here gives them a boost then thats great.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Giving
Thinking
Track
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The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Association
People
Risk
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Diet
Adopting
Athlete
Exercise
Levels
Lifestyle
Vegetables
More
Changing
New
Fresh
Healthier
Include
Involve
Well
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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.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Funding
Pride
Thinking
Work Great Pride
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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.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Britain
Meetings
Talent
Thinking
Athletes
Compete
Properly
Stunted
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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.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Jobs
Athlete
Earning
Funding
Lottery
Pride
School
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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.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Coaches
Country
Stars
Streets
Athletes
Deliver
Facilities
Search
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I think the Jamaicans are among the most talented people on the planet; it's just that through circumstances, through poverty, they rarely get the chance to bring those talents to the fore.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Circumstances
Poverty
Among
Talented
Fore
Planet
Rarely
Talented People
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Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Lifting
Sprint
Chain
Compliments
Movements
Olympic
Perfectly
Principle
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When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Athlete
Real
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I used to say to my opponents: 'If you let me beat you, I'm going to tell your kids you were beaten by an older man.' When I beat them I would tell them I did it with a slight hamstring problem or that I was only feeling 80 per cent fit.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Beaten
Older Man
Opponents
Man Your Me
Cent
Man Me Your
Slight
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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.
Linford Christie / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Coaching
Disappointed
Track
Youngsters
Advising
I Am Me Lost
Named
Intend
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