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.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

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

I don't even have my own computer.

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.