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.

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.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.