Top 31 Linford Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Linford

#1. Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic.

Philip Treacy

#6. It was not uncommon for his father to toss out the phrase "Jebem ti supu od klinova Isusovih!" which translated roughly as "Fuck the soup made from the nails of Jesus's crucifixion," and not think twice about it, even if in English he was unfailingly polite.

Reif Larsen

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

Linford Christie

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

Linford Christie

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

Linford Christie

#10. 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

#11. 'Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

Michael Biehn

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.

Linford Christie

#15. With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.

Len Wiseman

#16. 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

#17. There is only continual motion. If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace?

Sylvia Plath

#18. God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

Tad Williams

#19. If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.

Dave Brandon

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

Linford Christie

#21. Robert Fox is real good! Enough said!

Linford Christie

#22. The very idea of higher states of consciousness is absurd. Comparing one state of consciousness to another and saying one is "higher" and the other is "mundane" is like eating a banana and complaining it's not a very good apple.

Brad Warner