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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

When I'm in love, I wake up happy.

All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.