Sir Steve Redgrave Quotes

#1. I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.

Giles Duley

#2. Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

Susan Meissner

#3. The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.

Alan Bradley

#4. When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

Mark Messier

#5. Life has become a state of sensory overload.

Joseph Curiale

#6. Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently

Catherine Cox

#7. My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast.

Andrew Lau

#8. Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#9. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

A.J.P. Taylor