It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

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.

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

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.