Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion.

You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds.

A second ago is gone, and a second from now might be. Now is all you've got. Go for it!

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on...

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.