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

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.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

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

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.