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

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.

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

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.

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.

How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.

One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

Obamacare is not affordable by the USA and it's not affordable by people.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.