Quotes from Clare Balding

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

On the beach, I take my clothes off under a towel.

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.