I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

The thing I do best is laugh.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

I want to keep my private life private.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

I make no apologies.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Peace, unity and harmony!

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled.

When Im in a bad mood I dont listen.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I've always been mad about cats.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.