53 Quotes by Linford Christie

When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.

Regardless of what I've ever done or will ever do, I'll always be black.

People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.

I think the Jamaicans are among the most talented people on the planet; it's just that through circumstances, through poverty, they rarely get the chance to bring those talents to the fore.

It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a great woman. She had wisdom and knowledge.

You can always be stronger.

Appreciate me for what I am doing.

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.