Ovett Quotes

#1. Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Ron Pickering

#2. I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

Daley Thompson

#3. And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

David Coleman

#4. During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

Daley Thompson

#5. I suspect Nargles are behind it.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?
You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#7. My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

Steve Ovett

#8. The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

Ridley Scott

#9. I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Julie Mehretu

#10. There is no path I follow. I feel as if I'm just drifting along, because although I can progress physically, through my training, mentally and spiritually I don't know what the hell I'm doing. It's like that car sticker: 'Don't follow me, I'm lost'.

Steve Ovett

#11. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

Jack Herer

#12. The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

Steve Ovett

#13. The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Oscar Wilde

#14. In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Paul Gillmor

#15. The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. You are not the fat girl. You are voluptuous!...You are an angle descended from the heavens, a goddess of plenty walking among the denizens of hell where stick figures reign supreme.

Alesia Holliday

#17. I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

Olivia Palermo