Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.