A biography for Clare Baldinghasn’t been written yet.
“Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.”
“I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I'm proud of, and I think that's important. Now, do I need a church to tell me that? Actually, no, I don't.”
“I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.”
“I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.”
“I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.”
“Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.”
“I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.”
“Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.”
“It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.”
“Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.”
“Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.”
“I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.”
“Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working.”
“Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.”
“I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.”
“You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.”
“I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.”
“People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.”
“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've never been particularly maternal.”