I used to say to my opponents: ‘If you let me beat you, I’m going to tell your kids you were beaten by an older man.’ When I beat them I would tell them I did it with a slight hamstring problem or that I was only feeling 80 per cent fit. Linford Christie Read Quote
I love being in the garden, and my ‘chilling-out room’ is almost like being out there. Linford Christie Read Quote
As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons. Linford Christie Read Quote
When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week. Linford Christie Read Quote
When I was competing I didn’t have a nutritionist. It wasn’t something that British athletics offered back then. Linford Christie Read Quote
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. Linford Christie Read Quote
