Quotes by Clare Balding

About Clare Balding:

Clare Victoria Balding is a BBC television presenter, journalist and retired amateur jockey. She is one of the channel's highest-profile personalities and currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport and the religious/spiritual programme Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2.
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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.

Clare Balding

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

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Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.

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I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

Clare Balding

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

Clare Balding

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

Clare Balding

If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

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I know sport can change the world, and that matters to me.

Clare Balding

Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.

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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.

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I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

Clare Balding

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

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I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

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Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

Clare Balding

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Clare Balding

Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.

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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

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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.

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Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

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Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

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Author Bio

  • NameClare Balding
  • DescriptionBritish TV presenter, journalist and amateur jockey
  • BornJanuary 29, 1971
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Presenter; Journalist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire