If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.
I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.
I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.
We need to be confident. We need not to blink.
Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.
All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.
Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.