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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Being involved with passion is one of the common characteristics I have observed in all the successful people I have come across.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

Optimism is true moral courage.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.