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

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

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 don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.

Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.