When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

It's better to train for 4-5 hours a week than to do ten hours one week then nothing for two weeks. It helps your body adapt and also maintains your fitness.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.

Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.