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

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

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

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'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it.

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.'

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.