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.

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.

Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever since.

Your past can hinder you from fulfilling your calling

But in this crowd, my blond ponytail stood out like a crescent moon in a midnight sky.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

You know... when one speaks your name very fast, it just sounds like just incredible

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.