You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.