It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.

It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.

I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.