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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete the other side just comes with the package.

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Paula Radcliffe
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 17
Long-Distance Runner
Olympic Athlete
Northwich
Cheshire
Paula Jane Radcliffe
MBE
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In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
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I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.
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I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.
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Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
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You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.
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I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!
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There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.
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I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
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It's good to be back, feeling like myself and enjoying it.
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In the marathon anything can happen.
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I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
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I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
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Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
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You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.
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