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

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 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.

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.

There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works—regardless of cost.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'