Cathy Freeman Quotes

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

It is something if circumstances were repeated I would not do again.

I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.

You set out to be a footballer, when you're young, and you think I'd love to do that. There's plenty of things along the way that could change that, and it's the same thing now with being a manager, it's time will tell how it goes.

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I really didn't know If I wanted to pursue the Olympics for wrestling. I didn't know what to do with my life. So, I prayed about it. My manager called me a few weeks later and asked if I wanted to fight. I agreed to give it a shot, and I went out and got knocked out.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now.

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

Just going to the Olympics would be a dream come true. I could finish last, and it would still be an amazing experience.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

I've been to three Olympics. I gave it my all.

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.