Charlotte Dujardin Quotes
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The fan mail I get every day is incredible. It piles through the door from not just Britain but everywhere. It is so great to have that support behind me - everyone says I am an inspiration. It is great.
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As much as you may be sitting in the top five or the top 10, sometimes you just don't get that chance to get to the top.
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It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.
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You can't do the same thing every day with the horse. Because they then know the thing inside out, and they're leading you, not the other way round. You don't want them to take over. You have to be able to ride the movements and set the movements up; you don't want them starting before you are ready.
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Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
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London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.
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At an event in Germany, I realised the organisers had 'The Great Escape' playing as background music to my test, and I just thought, 'It's really cool. I want that.' It is fantastic to ride to.
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This will be Valegro's retirement after Rio, so I want to go out there and want to enjoy every last minute.
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I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.
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People tell me I'm their idol and a huge inspiration - that's really surreal.
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I'm quite happy with the way my life is.
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I love producing horses, and we have some great young horses at home. We'll look forward and train those and start again.
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I never set goals.
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I've been riding Valegro since he was four or five years old.
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Every competition I do, I never know if it's the last one.
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It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
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When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.
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I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.
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My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.
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I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
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I got asked to do loads of TV series, all sorts of things that weren't me.
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I owe my mum Jane a lot, as she's supported me all the way, so I'm very lucky.
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So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that's it - the performance is over.
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My family didn't have lots of money or anything.