“I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

“My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.”

“Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.”

“Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.”

“Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.”

“In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”