"I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them."

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Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Jill Douglas

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“The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.”
“Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.”
“You have to be odd to be number one.”
“If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.”

Source : "Summit Series 40th Anniversary: Clarke’s Game 6 Slash on Kharlamov Was Turning Point for Team Canada" by Red Fisher, www.montrealgazette.com. September 24, 2012.
“It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.380, Random House
“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”
“I can't take another day of this.”
“You don't have any problems, all you need is faith in God.”

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