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"If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside."
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"Losing your job gives you access to time."

"One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances."

"First opportunity is the golden opportunity."

"Adversity is opportunity inside out."

"Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it."

"Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface, it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!"

"One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch."

"Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It's not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it."

"Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you, you have to go for it."

"Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it."
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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."


"My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work."


"I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs."


"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'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!"


"I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days."


"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."
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