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For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.
Paula Radcliffe
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Paula Radcliffe
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 17
Long-Distance Runner
Olympic Athlete
Northwich
Cheshire
Paula Jane Radcliffe
MBE
Paula Jane Radcliffe
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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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I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!
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I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.
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I apologise to people when I need to.
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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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At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
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We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.
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I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth
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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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I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.
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I was glad I did a year abroad, because it helped me as an athlete and as a person. That took me out of my comfort zone. Watching the French athletes train in the Pyrenees made me realise what I had to do to become a top athlete.
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I can swim I'm not bad, but not great.
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The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.
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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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I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
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I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
Paula Radcliffe
In the marathon anything can happen.
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I don't like going away from my children.
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I've always been good at putting things behind me–I fall apart, do my crying bit, and then put it away and move on.
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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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