You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.

When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.