The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

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.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

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 did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

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.

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.