Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

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.

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.

You cannot become successful all by yourself.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ...

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it's not something I want to think about every day.

Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.