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23rd May 2016
03:22pm BST

"To try and form a relationship with someone… not necessarily talking about sport, not necessarily talking about any ambitions… to get to know somebody and open up with someone and talk about family and social and friends. How they get through this life of ours. What the type of things they enjoy doing, makes them feel good… the type of things that challenges them."
"Take the Great North Run this year… I was last. But you won because you competed. Next year, I’ll be second last. Because really if we have this obsession with just winning… there’s nothing wrong with winning. But just conventionally winning… not many people are going to be happy. 20,000 people running the London Marathon, if everyone had the expectation to be number one… well there’s going to be a lot of sad people on the day. The expectation is to do as best as you can do. There was a great basketball coach, called John Wooden, UCLA. Wonderful, wonderful man. He said "Don’t try to be better than anyone else, just try and be as good as you can be." Another man, who you and I would expect to be on the other side of the spectrum - General Patton. He said famously "If a man gives everything, what else is there?" Now he said that because he didn’t want people to try and fail and just [slouches] get depressed. They didn’t have time for that during the war. You did your best, I appreciate that, let’s move on. Not a bad way of looking at things, isn’t it?"
'If you said to me 'what’s the biggest difference you’ve seen in the last 40 years?' it’s this instant gratification. Say you came along to see me and said 'I want to do this, I want to do that, I want to take up bodybuilding.' Dead easy honestly. All you have to is, we got the knowledge how to do it, we just have to make it a fun experience for you. So you enjoy yourself. How long will it take? It will take as long as it takes. If you try to fast forward, you’ll break down. It won’t be a good experience if you try to fast forward as you’ll expect to get this buzz all the time… and it’s not there.'What makes Steve such an interesting man is how often his advice crosses over from the world of sport into something bigger. So many times he drops advice as to how we can all help each other get along better, of how to remember to tell those around us how much we love and appreciate them, and of course his relationship of Jonny Wilkinson ("I love him to bits"). As a final note, I'll leave it to him:
Collectively together, if we’re all enjoying what we’re doing it’s infectious and some everyone and help each other. We might at times appear to be moving fast than others and progressing at a different rate, sometimes we’re consolidating. Sometimes we might be needing to take a step back. There’s no need to be down if you’re not progressing as fast as someone else because what you need to do is become as good as you can be.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANW-tH80eiw&feature=youtu.be
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