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"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability."
Age
"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won."
Work
"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
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"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it."
Being
"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
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"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way."
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"My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m."
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