“A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering wh...” — Colin Jackson Quote

A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering what's going on and what's going to happen.

You need to give yourself a fighting chance on this planet. Health, fitness and cooking good food for yourself are the few things in life that we get the total benefit from. So I eat well and do some form of exercise every day.

I'm not saying everything was better in the old days; it wasn't. We had no Lottery funding to give us money to live on, medical support and tremendous facilities. But we did produce winners.

One of my biggest ambitions was to perform well at championships - I knew if I did that I was going to run fast anyway.

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.