Michelle Jenneke Quotes

A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

I prefer that people are now talking about me as a player rather than about my hair.

In a lot of ways I would love to be another student and love to be looked at as a Duke student and a senior and psych major and someone on the basketball team instead of Duke's polarizing, lightning rod, Grayson Allen villain, all those types of things.

People talk about what I did in my private life more than if I'm good at football. 'Oh yeah, he was good, but I don't like him because of this.' But you don't know me! Know me as a footballer.

People who don't understand will try to label me as one or the other. I'm an athlete and a lot of people just have to come to terms with that. I do well in football, I do well in track. It is what it is.

I'm out there to play my sport, to showcase my sport. I'm not an actress.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

I don't think I am an icon. My team works hard on my look; I just wear what they suggest.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

It's very easy to get caught up in the world of press and maintaining an image and maintaining this highlight reel that the world expects.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Everything I post on social media, they make a headline out of it!

You need a little bit of experience to do well in the Olympics.

I have played for the national team many times, so I am used to good things - and bad things - being said about me.

I don't want to be in the news for anything negative.

I travelled the world because of the way people saw me at the Olympics.

Part and parcel of being an international sportsman is dealing with fair or unfair criticism and also when you are on the back pages when you are performing.

I will try hard to win more medals for the country and make India proud.

Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

I'm a true believer in, people only remember you for your last fight.

I want the public to know how it feels, the fear of being scrutinized, of being outed. The fear of what happens when you come out and the media puts you under a microscope. It's crippling. You get lost.

I know that everybody is not going to be a Terrell Suggs fan, and that's fine. For the people that are, I'm going to be myself and they are going to love me and they are going to enjoy it.

I paid a price for being on game shows and that was not being taken seriously. But so what? I did what I did and I was glad. But it's a strange form of immortality.