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"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable."

"Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk."

"All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you."

"There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city."

"The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London."

"Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander."

"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."
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