John Scally - Great Sporting Wisdom - Legendary Quotes from the World of Sport

Desmond Lynam

Darwin Revisited

Tonight, a special Horizon programme, Survival of the Fartest … Fastest.

Richard Baker from the BBC cassette Sporting Gaffes

Sequence Of Events

That performance would have won him the Olympic gold medal in the championship four years ago, which he won anyway.

Desmond Lynam, talking about Sebastian Coe

Get To The Bottom Of It

Harvey Glance, the black American sprinter, with the white top and black bottom.

Ron Pickering

A Change Of Plan

When the pace is slow, sometimes the athletes will make a move they hadn’t planned to make earlier in the race than they planned to do it.

Brendan Foster

Insight

Watch the time – it gives you a good indication of how fast they are running.

Ron Pickering

Carried Away

Anything that matters so much to David Coleman, you realise, doesn’t matter so much at all.

Clive James

Des -ire

Desmond Lynam is so laid back, he’s almost horizontal – which is exactly how his legions of fantasising housewifely fans imagine him to be.

Frank Keating

The Invisible Woman

Zola Budd, so small, so waif-like, you literally cannot see her; but there she is.

Alan Parry

Trivia

The world’s fastest woman is an expert cook.

Daily Graphic headline after Fanny Blankers-Koen won Olympic gold in 1948

Power To All Our Friends

The man [Henry Rono] with asbestos lungs.

Ron Pickering

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