105 Quotes by Denise Lewis

When you are in a sport, there is a plan to reach for perfection in a certain week in August and it gives you a focus in life and in everything you do around it.

When I say I gave it my all in Sydney, I really did.

To get to the top in anything, you have to keep asking yourself questions. How much do I really want this? What am I prepared to give up to get it?

During my career I had been training twice a day, every day, because it was all about me. That was the job. But with kids, my hours were vastly reduced.

The magazines drive me insane, because it's such an unrealistic ideology, that you're going to have a baby, or even just be out of shape for a little while, and then ping back into shape.

I was part of London 2012 in the build-up and there's always drama ahead of a major championship or Games.

At the age of 46, I'm a mum of four.

I love babies; there was a need in me for one more.

I've always wanted to be an athlete, I loved sport and PE in school and always watched the Olympic Games on TV.