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"I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!"
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"I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running."


"I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race."


"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."


"I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin."


"I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training."


"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."


"My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England."


"The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized."


"My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages."
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