I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

The only limitations are mental. The guy who thinks positively will win.