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

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

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

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.

I don't even have my own computer.