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

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

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.

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

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

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

I don't even have my own computer.