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

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.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.