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

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.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.