Alan Thompson Quotes (26 Quotes)

They're not the sort of games we play. Swimming is a big sport in this country and people are interested in what Ian Thorpe is doing and whether he is swimming, and that's the reason it has been in all the papers.

In a country of 1.3 billion people, they have an obvious advantage.

He has a fairly nervous wait I would think.

I would like to see who is going to step up in the men's middle distance area.

I think he showed at the state championships (last month) that he's back ready to go pretty quick. I've got no doubt that he'll go pretty quick.

If that's what he and (his coach) Tracey (Menzies) think is the best thing to do then we'll be giving him every opportunity to recover well. I would say another couple of days might make all the difference.

This is a huge loss to the team.

There is no deadline from Swimming Australia or the Commonwealth Games Association.

This is an exciting blend of experience and youth and those swimmers on their first or second teams will greatly benefit from being on a team with so many Olympians and long serving team members.

Congratulations on holding the line this year, ... We appreciate the efforts your department has had to make to stay under budget.

The freestyle relay starts on day one of competition, while the medley relay isn't decided until day six on the program.

Our aim is the Olympic Games and we are looking to have our best possible team at the Olympic Games in 2008, so we will give the opportunities to those people in the lead-up to that.

We know what a tough competitor Linda is and we have seen what Libby can do at the world championships.

Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand on the stage in his own and get the accolades he deserves.

We have picked a team of athletes who we believe will benefit from this type of intense competition in the lead-up to the 2007 FINA world championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

I'm taking video evidence of a number of incidents over the last two years which happened at the Olympic Games, the world short course championships and the world championships,

This job is well-suited for people who want to work hard. Some of the people who work here just love horses and some are interested in travel and tourism. But many are here because of the location in the mountains and the experience of moving to a western state.

I think sometimes people think, 'We'll leave it for Grant to do'.

And they have got an ability to coach and an ability to swim. Even in the old days - whatever they were doing - they still had to be able to swim well to be able to do what they did. I think they are going to be a threat to us in the coming years. It's not something we're not thinking about. We're looking at it.

It's not looking good, he hasn't been able to do much for months, he's just floating around.

Celtic is one of the world's biggest clubs and this agreement sets the seal on an amazing month for me, what with overcoming Barcelona, winning my first cap for England and now signing this extension,

I would expect that most of them will be swimming quicker now than they were a month ago because they are close to tapering for the Commonwealth Games trials.

It's not a drama and he'll race a few times on the west coast of the US. He'll also do some altitude training in Colorado.

We understand Nine's concerns but we've guaranteed Grant will not contravene any broadcast rules and will be sensitive to the network's rights.

He certainly sounded better and it was good to hear him felling good about himself and his health - but we are far from out of the woods - I think the word is encouraging.

He'll be joining the camp around the middle of the week.