Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.