I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

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.

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.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

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.

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

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.