Explore Quotes by Cathy Freeman

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.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

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.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

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

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

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

Peace, unity and harmony!

The thing I do best is laugh.

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 don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

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

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

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.

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.

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.