My goal has always been to help our athletics a blend of the old and new by encouraging them. - Falilat Ogunkoya

When the ovation is loudest, it’s not when people start saying what else do you want. Because sometimes it’s better to give the young ones a chance to come up, it’s not that some people don’t want to leave, it’s because Nigeria don’t appreciate their own.

Some of the athletes of this generation need to be ready to work harder and not to be telling their coaches that the work load is too much. They must realise that only hard work, determination and discipline can take them to the top of their careers.

My parents bought me my first running shoe , My coach John Afuwape gave my first Spike shoe in 1980.