I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

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