People like scandals.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

How you think matters. How you act matters more.

But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.