Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury. ' I just want to be able to go out and race.
To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.
I try not to worry about things that I can't control.
I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.
I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering. . . I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside. . . what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.
If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.
Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.