Cathy Freeman
I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Knowledge
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.Collection: Alone
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.Collection: Chance
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.
I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.
I make no apologies.
Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.
I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
The thing I do best is laugh.
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.
Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
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.
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.
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.
I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.
I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.
I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
Peace, unity and harmony!
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
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.
My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.
I want to keep my private life private.
I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.Collection: Success
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see is another Australian athlete having a go. It isn't until they see the full Cathy Freeman picture that they realise how proud I am of my ancestry and heritage. I'd like a little more tolerance and acceptance of my culture and all the differing cultures that make up Australia.Collection: Leadership
Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.Collection: Sports
Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.Collection: Sports
Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.Collection: Leadership
I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.Collection: Sports
My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.Collection: Running
I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.Collection: Sports
I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.Collection: Running
My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.Collection: Running
I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.Collection: Kind
I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.Collection: Retirement
I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.Collection: May
I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.Collection: Children
My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.Collection: Mind
I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.Collection: Nike
I'm drinking lots of herbal tea.Collection: Drinking
I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.Collection: Sports
When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.Collection: Years
I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.Collection: Issues