Charlotte Dujardin

“I want to get up and ride my horses, do what I love doing. I don't want to be recognised.”

“There is Rio in 2016, but it won't be the same as going to London and hearing 24,000 people - nearly all British - cheering, stamping their feet, and screaming your name.”

“Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.”

“It is very rare that he makes a mistake, and I feel just privileged to have done what I have with him. There will never be another Valegro.”

“I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.' They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, 'I can't work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself - we just couldn't tell - but it brought tears to our eyes.'”

“London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.”

“I love producing horses, and we have some great young horses at home. We'll look forward and train those and start again.”

“I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can't take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.”

“Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.”

“It's always nice for the judges and the audiences to have something a bit different so they don't always see and hear the same thing.”

“My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she took me off, I'd scream my head off.”

“I get called 'the girl off the dancing horse.' I just laugh; I think it's really funny. It's true, isn't it? It's great we're getting that recognition.”

“If I never competed again, it wouldn't bother me. I don't care.”