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"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."


"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 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 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."


"Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury."


"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."


"You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy."


"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."
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