Quotes from Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Just being with some of the best athletes in the world is a marvelous experience.

I like women but I want a meaningful relationship.

You can rest assured that I will marry... And I will also create my own family.

Winning has become too important in all sports, with too many commercial rewards.

We may be small in size but we have a lot to offer. Visit us - that would be great. Live in Monaco if there is room - that would be wonderful.

We try to create as safe an environment as possible for our citizens and for our visitors. That's one of the main positive features of Monaco. In an ever-changing and difficult world, it's a tremendous asset.

Monaco has a vocation to embrace other cultures. Should this be forgotten, the European and American origins of my family are there to remind us.

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

The IOC presidency has been suggested to me.

Charlene has a very strong personality and I have no doubt of her desire to get involved in things alongside me.

Those of us who were fortunate enough to know my mother - her family and friends - knew her to be a genuine, warm and loving woman - a woman who always put her family first.

My father gave me this poster from National Geographic back in the very early 70s, so I was a young teenager. It showed how man polluted his world. And the issues that they talked about, whether it was water pollution, air, or terrestrial... The issues that they talk about on this poster are still very much present today.

I really wanted to address different issues of protection of biodiversity, water management issues that I knew were pretty severe in most countries, and then of course climate change.

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

Climate change has far-reaching consequences for our own survival on this planet. As an issue, it overrides everything else.

Creating wealth is not an end in itself. It needs to be shared by all.

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

The British community is very active and very generous in many different areas. I can only have high praise for them.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

If everyone that has agreed to the Paris Agreement wants to meet their targets they are going to have to make renewables part of the equation. There's no other way out of it.

You have to protect your personal life, your family and their intimacy as much as possible, whenever possible. Especially when you're a public figure with appearances to attend. Of course, that's harder to do than to say.

I monitor very carefully, in the automobile sector in particular, the development of new technologies which help to limit negative effects on the environment by influencing human actions.

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the planet, avoid the catastrophic rise in sea levels that would result from the ice melt, and stop the disappearance of permafrost releasing irreversible quantities of greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere.

Oceans are a family heritage, because of my great-great-grandfather, but also my father, who spearheaded different initiatives to better protect the Mediterranean. He was very instrumental in setting up the Pelagos Marine Sanctuary, which is a sanctuary for marine mammals between Italy, France and Monaco.