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,

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

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

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

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

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