Cathy Freeman quotes Country: australia

• Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled. (Cathy Freeman)
• At this stage, my private life is taking a back seat. (Cathy Freeman) [stage/life]
• Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me. (Cathy Freeman) [people/attention]
• Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice. (Cathy Freeman) [being/time/perfect/attention]
• Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma. (Cathy Freeman)
• For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games! (Cathy Freeman) [future]
• I already knew that Samsung Electronics was an international corporation. I received the proposal to participate in the flame relay and I delightfully accepted the offer. I think Samsung selected me taking into consideration a number of symbolical meanings. (Cathy Freeman) [think]
• I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running. (Cathy Freeman) [exercise/pleasure]
• 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. (Cathy Freeman) [right/decision/mistake]
• I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do. (Cathy Freeman)
• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business. (Cathy Freeman) [business]
• I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless. (Cathy Freeman)
• I don't have a lot of regrets in my life. (Cathy Freeman) [life]
• I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention. (Cathy Freeman) [people/attention]
• I don't want to be a celebrity. As long as my family and loved ones are there, I'm happy. I'm strange like that but I think I have my priorities straight. I have always been family-orientated. (Cathy Freeman) [celebrity/family/strange/think]
• 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. (Cathy Freeman) [age/knowledge/take/experience]
• I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more. (Cathy Freeman) [bad/day/confidence/problem]
• I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded. (Cathy Freeman) [time/time/more/more]
• I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends. (Cathy Freeman) [floor/watch]
• I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded. (Cathy Freeman) [being]
• 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. (Cathy Freeman) [being/role/being/confidence]
• 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. (Cathy Freeman) [team/life/life]
• I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia. (Cathy Freeman)
• I make no apologies. (Cathy Freeman)
• I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way. (Cathy Freeman) [right/decision/retirement]
• I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. (Cathy Freeman) [think/amount]
• 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. (Cathy Freeman) [time]
• I want to keep my private life private. (Cathy Freeman) [life]
• I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old. (Cathy Freeman) []
• I was convinced that olympic gold medal lay in the range of the possible. This victory was a realistic goal. (Cathy Freeman) [gold]
• 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. (Cathy Freeman) [face/mother]

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