Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

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.

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.

Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.

None of this is your fault, ' I told him. 'None of it. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.