You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.