"Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run."
"I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope."
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Source: Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.85, Canongate Books
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