My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

I think people believe what they want to believe.

It was a woman who drove me to drink - and you know I never even thanked her.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.

If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!

An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

I think that certainly my choices empower me.