"Winning the world championship was a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I trained so hard to achieve that goal …"

"I was the youngest player in the league and I didn’t understand what was going on."

"At the beginning, no one encouraged, supported or even gave attention to any sports other than football. So after I h…"

"I am really interested to help young females to achieve what they want to. I try to be as much of a role model as I c…"

"My advice to young athletes, not only girls, is to never give up on your dreams and to be committed and determined to…"

"I think greatness in life is to follow your dream, work hard, fight and never give up till you reach your goal. Then …"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"