You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.