The fragments below are taken from different interviews of Marianne. I translated them as good as possible. I would to thank the Telegraaf, the Sportweek, the Vereniging Marianne Timmer, Sport International, ZSM and Thialf magazine.

that when she was a child she stayed in the winter with grandma and grandpa, sometimes for six weeks;

that granny taught her skating on 't Achterdiep when she was four years old;

that she likes sheep's:" You coddle them, walk after them. With a bottle in the sheep-pen to feed a lamb, so pure.";

that she once have said: "In fact we are all the lamb that wants to be loved, nobody excepted.";

that Marianne always wants to be the best;

that she has had the disease of Pfeiffer;

that Marianne has visited the festival Pinkpop for a few times;

that she likes to read(about sports), draw and shop for relaxation;

that the Dutch man Herman Finkers is her favorite cabaret artist. He is also the favorite cabaret artist of me;

that she prefers to wear a bikini over a swimming suit;

that she prefers to drink tea over drinking coffee;

that she rather wears klompen (wooden shoes) than gymnasium shoes;

that Marianne wants to do a lot for her sport, but in her life there is more than skating fast rounds on the ice;

that if you want to know her better, you have to earn her trust;

that she dislikes games and quizzes;

that she is not always happy with the fact that she is in the center of interest;

that according to Marianne to find the right shape is the fun and challenge of skating;

she wants to make a television program once;

that when people called her "the Ice queen of Nagano" it was exaggerated according to Marianne; She still was one and the same person, namely `Timmertje`, the daughter of a sheepbreeder of Sappemeer;

that when things go bad, she looks for positive things;

that when she has skated bad, you'd better stay away from her;

that the Olympic Games are IT for her in sport;

Peter Mueller is her husband since august the twelfth 2001;

that Anni Friesinger is a very good friend of her;

that she hates hypocrisy(not the band Hypocrisy);

that she once pronounced: "where smoke is, there is fire"

that she lives in her own world, in the winter more than in the summer;

that Zen Boedism gives her strength;