“At some point sport doesn’t become team, it actually becomes family. It really is a united kind of feeling to come together to sweat, train and work hard for a goal and then be able to do that goal together creates that beautiful kind of team spirit and camaraderie that you can’t share in the office space or in daily life and that’s the beauty of what sport does.”

“Athletics is really important in daily life, to see older people running, my age, and they are still competing very strongly is very encouraging.”

“Good thing about sport, you meet people. It gives you a chance to travel, to new places you haven’t been.”