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

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.

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

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

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.