I Found Longer Races Boring. I Found

I Trained For Less Than Three-quarters Of An Hour, Maybe Five Days A Week - I Didn't Have Time To Do More. But It Was All About Quality, Not Quantity - So I Didn't Waste Time Jogging, Ever.

I've Always Been Very Impatient. At Age 10 I Frankly Found Life Boring, And I Can Remember Age 9 Having The Awful Thought, As It Seems Now Looking Back On It, A War! That Should Liven Things Up A Bit!

If I Faltered, There Would Be No Arms To Hold Me And The World Would Be A Cold And Forbidding Place.

I Was Playing Rugby And The Other Games English School Children Do, And There Was An Event Which Was Planned In Which Races Were Run, And I Simply Just Won These By A Considerable Margin

Our House Was Bombed, And The Roof Fell In. We Were Sitting Under The Stairs Of The Basement, And We Were Quite Safe, But It Brought Home The Realization. In Two Nights 400 People Were Killed In Small Town.