I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

Jaunting off together towards the bedroom doorway, they cast off their clothes, like caps at graduation.

Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I am happy! I'm leaving on a trip and my wife is staying in Bulgaria.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.