A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.
I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.
I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.
My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
Miami is a really special place for me, particularly in the U.S. It was one of the first places in the country to really embrace dance music, and I've been going there for many, many years.
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.
Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
