Linford Christie Quotes

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Linford Christie

Profession : Athlete

Birth : April 2, 1960

I like to have space.

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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.

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I love being in the garden, and my 'chilling-out room' is almost like being out there.

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I've never enjoyed being cooped up.

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I'm a very opinionated person and when I feel something I have to say it.

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As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.

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When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.

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I have always eaten well.

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When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.

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I've done my country proud.

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I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.

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Regardless of what I've ever done or will ever do, I'll always be black.

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People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.

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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.

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It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a great woman. She had wisdom and knowledge.

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You can always be stronger.

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Appreciate me for what I am doing.

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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.

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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.

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