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.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

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.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.