Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

The greatest sacred sayings

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck