I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

It's better to train for 4-5 hours a week than to do ten hours one week then nothing for two weeks. It helps your body adapt and also maintains your fitness.

What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother’s remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?

Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.