Top 25 Linford Christie Quotes

In this post, you will find great Linford Christie Quotes. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

I am there for the athletes I coach.
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I think it’s great that they are getting funding, but it’s just too easy. They don’t have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
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I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
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If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.
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Appreciate me for what I am doing.
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I grew up until I was seven in Jamaica with my grandmother, who I still think of as the greatest person I have known in my life.
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I like to have space.
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I’ve done my country proud.
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I’m a very opinionated person and when I feel something I have to say it.
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But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
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I know what it takes to get to the top.
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When I was competing, I cut out red meat but only because I felt it took too long to digest, so I stuck to chicken and fish.
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When I was competing I didn’t have a nutritionist. It wasn’t something that British athletics offered back then.
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I love being in the garden, and my ‘chilling-out room‘ is almost like being out there.
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I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
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When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.
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People live, people die. It’s always hard when it’s a member of your family.
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Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is ‘fully connected.’ This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
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There was no money in the sport but we’d be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
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I don’t think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
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My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.
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It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a great woman. She had wisdom and knowledge.
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Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.
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I’m good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can’t hang wallpaper or paint.
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