I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.

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

The thing I do best is laugh.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

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.

When I was 18 years old, about to develop my sportsman career, the asthma complaints became already some years before.