Eamonn Holmes has shared a particular generational pattern that makes him "want to shake" people.
The GB News Breakfast fan-favourite, 65, reflected on the athletes he idolises as he talked about younger people being unaware of their legendary achievements.
The remarks came while Eamonn and fellow Breakfast regular Paul Coyte interviewed Olympics legend Sally Gunnell for the latest episode of their podcast, Things We Like with Eamonn & Paul.
"I'm just looking at your record here, in the two-year period between '92 and '94, you won every international event that was open to you," Eamonn said to Sally.
Eamonn Holmes and Paul Coyte on their Things We Like podcast
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Listing off the incredible achievements, he continued: "Olympics Games, World Championship, European Championship, Commonwealth Games, Goodwill Games, IAAF World Cup and European Cup - goodness me.
"Breaking the British European and world record, you are the only female British athlete to have won all four major world, European, and Commonwealth titles there, and I could go on and on and on with that."
The People's Channel star explained how he is baffled to think recording-breaking stars go on to live normally as he commented: "But I just think it's important...
"I spent some time with Daley Thompson recently and it was like he just walked around and people kept passing him by and I kept thinking, 'Do you realise this guy may have been the greatest athlete - male athlete - there's ever been?'
Eamonn admitted he wants to 'shake people'
GB News"I sort of wanted to shake people and tell them, and Daley is older and slightly and very quiet and all that sort of thing, but how, when you've got all those titles, those accolades - it's just incredible...
"How do you live with that? Do you just forget that you won those?"
Laughing, Gunnell, 58, replied: "I feel sometimes as though it's happened to somebody else, it is weird.
"And I don't know, I think when you're a parent and you've got kids... I've got three boys and they're all really sporty and you're just 'mum.'
"And if I ever get to show that race and whatever else, it does feel like it's an out-of-body experience, as though it's happened to somebody else.
"Almost the day you stop, you can't do any of that, you can hardly get over a hurdle, you know. You're 31, and the whole thing just stops and goes.
"You do have to sometimes remind yourself. Yeah, it's a weird thing really, because you don't change as a person."
"Is it hard to do, Sally?" asked Paul, pointing out: "I've heard before that after a successful Olympics, athletes tend to have a dip, like it's four years away, it's all finished."
Sally Gunnell stopped by to speak to Eamonn and Paul on their podcast
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"You have to come back down," Gunnell agreed, adding: "Any major championships, you're on a high.
"I've never taken drugs, but I'm sure it's the same sort of thing. You're on cloud nine, you're floating around, you have to come back down.
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Sally Gunnell reflected on her string of incredible achievements
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"I think I had great people around me, family and lots of friends outside of the sport, I think that really helped."
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