Lord Puttnam gives the keynote speech at UK Sport World Class Performance Conference 2015
Yesterday evening, Lord Puttnam gave the keynote speech at UK Sport’s 15th World Class Performance Conference 2015 at Hilton London Wembley.
The annual conference brings together leaders, practitioners and coaches to meet, debate and share best practice across key themes influencing athletes’ performances. This year, the theme of the conference was ‘realizing ambition’.
Lord Puttnam opened the conference by offering inspirational words on what it takes to realize ambition and the importance resilience, credibility and fairness.
“Chariots of Fire has lived because it speaks to something in people. It’s the sense of our better selves”
“Young people are desperate to be fearless, we just need to enable them.”
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