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Lynn Davies [1942-0] British

Rank: 101
Athlete, Olympic athlete

Lynn Davies CBE is a British former track and field athlete from Wales, who specialised in the long jump. He was the 1964 Olympic champion in the event. He was born in Nantymoel near Bridgend and was a member of the Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club.
He won an Olympic gold medal in the long jump in 1964 with a leap of 8.07 metres. He finished ninth in 1968, having been flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In 1964 he also competed in the 100 metres and 4×100 metres contests.

Sports, Fitness, Friendship, Great, Independence, Learning

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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.	Great, Sports	101
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.		102
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.	Learning, Sports	103
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.		104
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.		105
It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.		106
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.		107
You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.		108
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.		109
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.		110
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.		111
The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.		112
The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics - it was a great memory.		113
My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.		114
If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.		115
Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.		116
To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.		117
I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.		118
I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.		119
I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.		120
The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.		121
One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.		122
It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.		123
We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.		124
I've been involved in sport right through my life.		125
There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the coaches, officials, governing bodies, and Sport Wales. It's a real team effort, and it's rightly called Team Wales.		126
One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.		201
Belief is such an important aspect of sport.		202
Long jumping sounds simple - you run fast and jump well. But it is about getting all the technical bits right.		203
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?	Friendship	204
It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.		205
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.		206
Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.		207
U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.	Independence	208
Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.		209
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.		210
It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.		211
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.		212
I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.		213
You can exercise right through to your 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s.		214
You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.		215
I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's important to keep your muscle strength, as every decade you lose about 10% of this.		216
People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.	Fitness	217
We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.		218
People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.		219
We must have PE teachers and coaches who are well trained and qualified.		220
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.		221
When you win an Olympic gold, it is such a powerful feeling that stays with you for the rest of your life.		222
I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.		223
It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.		224
When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.		225

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