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The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up. ”
Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it. ”
Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid. ”
Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite. ”
The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner. ”
The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch. ”
I played in Sri Lanka, so I know how hard it is to come here and win. The weather is baking hot and the conditions are alien to English cricketers. ”
Preparation is not just about batting and bowling. You have to consider lots of things - the travel, the weather, the heat, the light, the sounds. You have to be comfortable with everything. ”
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life. ”
Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf. ”