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Alberto Juantorena

"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."

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"We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions."

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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

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"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

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"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

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"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

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"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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"Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion."
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"I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport."
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"Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition."
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"If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out."
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"We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way."
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"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."
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"We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world."
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"My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games."
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"I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school."
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"The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete."
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