Quotes from Caster Semenya

Times don't matter but medals matter.

The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.

Life wasn't good, but I could not walk away from something I love. I had a difficult life to face, but I had to try to keep dealing with the situation with the help of my family, friends, and training partners and manager.

I am an athlete first and foremost, and it is vital for my competitiveness, my well being, and for my preparations for events during the European summer that I measure my performance against other athletes.

To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.

When you walk out of your apartment, you think about performing; you do not think about how your opponent looks. So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun.

I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I do me, and you do you.

I always felt a bit different. When I'm with boys, I feel comfortable. When I'm with girls, I catch feelings. It's not anything I can control.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way.

I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.

It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.

We are going to help the young talented athletes become world champions.

Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It's just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk.

It's good to be well known. Everywhere I go it's the same thing - autographs, pictures.

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.

How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are not rich to do such procedures.

What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.

I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do, so I just have to find a way of being comfortable with it.

I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.

If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.

I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?

The thing I'm afraid of the most with the 800m is injuries. That's why I don't normally like to run in a group: I prefer to be in front, just in case someone pushes me with their spikes. I don't like stuff like that.