It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.

I am a sportsman, and I hate politics.

I saw what politics did to the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and I would defend the right of a sportsman to go and play and perform where they want.

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.

I've been involved in sport right through my life.

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.

One of our targets as a country is to now work very closely with the Commonwealth countries - they could become a very big market for us.

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics - it was a great memory.

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the coaches, officials, governing bodies, and Sport Wales. It's a real team effort, and it's rightly called Team Wales.

To win an Olympic title when there are 205 nations taking part, you have to be super-human. You have to be superman.

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

Sport and life is about losing. It’s about understanding how to lose.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it the tongue never made itself to speak and yet talks against him that did saying that which is made is and that which made it is not. But this folly is infinite as hell as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

I have no formal proof, but I dare not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen would treat me as collateral damage in the battle he is having with the party.

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.