Matthew Pinsent Quotations

I am delighted that so many rowers are yet again amongst the recipients in the New Year's Honors List but of course personally I am overjoyed that I have been knighted,

There has been lots written in the last few weeks about my career, most of it inflated or wrong. As a friend said to me, 'At the rate they're going, leave it a few more days and you'll be Pope

The UK suffers from some of the worst heart attack rates in Europe, and this is part of doing something about it.

When I was with Steve, we reckoned we could get up to top speed in about a month.

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

I can't see myself racing competitively because that would really wind me up, racing old-aged, hair-coming-out-of-their-ears type people who you should be beating but you're not

We all learned from Steve in Atlanta that you don't open your gob too soon.