Tanni Grey-Thompson : (4)

" I always wanted long hair you could flick, like the girls in shampoo ads. Before there were straighteners, I didn’t have the right sort of hair to wear it long, and obviously short hair is more practical when you’re competing. " - Tanni Grey-Thompson

" I have this dream of living in an immaculate house but it never seems to happen. " - Tanni Grey-Thompson

" The thing most disabled people cite when they are seriously or terminally ill is not the pain, not the suffering – it’s being a burden. " - Tanni Grey-Thompson

" I wouldn’t have had a sporting career if it hadn’t been for the volunteers who agreed to coach me, as a teenager, growing up in south Wales, at a time when others were telling me that wheelchair racing wasn’t really athletics. " - Tanni Grey-Thompson