Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

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

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

I am only about winning and getting better.

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.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.