The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

World records are only borrowed.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Interacting with fans has become one of my favorite things.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

No man is so great as mankind.

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.