Lynn Davies Quotes

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Lynn Davies

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 20, 1942

I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?

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People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.

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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

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I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.

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I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.

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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

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If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

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It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

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Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

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You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

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You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

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It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

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The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

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The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics - it was a great memory.

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My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.

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If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

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Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.

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To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

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I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.

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