"Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership."
"People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money."
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Source: Interview With Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.
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