Kelly Holmes Quotations

Let that settle and get back into fitness and then I need a clear head to make my mind up on my future and the Commonwealth Games,

Sheffield has been a great event for me in the past,

I have another MRI scan in three weeks' time,

I am still competitive and I still want to win,

But even if I do, after that definitely not - my body is not ready to take any more punishment. Now it's just as case of trying to do one thing at a time.

When he was in junior high the football team needed a kicker and he felt at home doing that.

Had I not got the gold medals then this year would have been devastation but the fact I have got the medals reminds me that I was very fortunate that last year came together.

I actually didn't expect to get round the whole 800 meters, so I'm quite pleased. Around the last 250 meters, I really felt my leg. That obviously wasn't me racing at my best.

He'd just come into my life but it shook me up very much. That was a life-changing experience that sometimes touches you in more ways that you think.

It depends on the leg and where you go from this point in time, ... It's if I want to do it as well as being able to do it.

I was really emotional over the last few days here knowing it was going to be my last race - it is something I love to do,

I've told the selectors I will give it until mid-November to make my decision whether to compete. I really do want to go but I have to be realistic and if I'm not fit enough, there is no point - although I am remaining hopeful.

There is nothing like competing before a home crowd.

We'll have to wait and see whether I am fit enough,

Without planes I wouldn't be able to do what I do.

Round the bend my achilles was too bad so there was no point in fighting any more

Now it's just as case of trying to do one thing at a time.

That's if I go to the Commonwealth Games,

I've achieved everything I wanted. I have nothing to prove, including to myself. Looking at what I've achieved, I don't think there is anything that is going to surpass that.

I need to get my leg sorted out and decide with a fresh mind.

I'm pretty emotional, ... Athletics has been my life, my passion.

I hope to take part in the indoor season, and that really will depend upon how much I train and my progression.

It has been such a hectic time since Athens and since I last raced at the end of the summer. It has been great fun, but I'm an athlete and running is what I do. I can't wait to get back on to the track.

If there was no air travel, I wouldn't be able to race overseas and I wouldn't have an international career. I simply wouldn't be able to do what I do.

I have to be clear of injury if I am to run at the Commonwealth Games. I am not going there struggling. I have done enough of that in my career.

It might say it has nearly healed, but if it shows that we can't get rid of the injury and that it needs an operation, then it's not worth thinking about the Commonwealth Games.

It's so important for me to be rested before a big race.

It's been a complete struggle to be honest,

I don't want to make an irrational decision with an injury. You just give up on injuries and I am not prepared to do that. I can't make my mind up until that is 100%.

I was 12 when I started and 34 before I achieved my dream, that should give people hope.

I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved.

Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.