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.

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.'

There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

I am only about winning and getting better.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

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.