Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

Belief is such an important aspect of sport.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

The important thing for the future is that our schools and clubs have more and better coaches and teachers to ensure that all that enthusiasm, spirit and talent is harnessed and developed.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?

Lynn Davies
Lynn Davies

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.