Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.

And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been

Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

Do not exchange your soul for money.

You might think that nobody’s insides are as messy as your insides. That’s an optical delusion. You only see other people’s outsides – never their insides. So you can’t possibly know.

The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.