I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.

It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.

I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.