When I was young you raced from one end of the street to the other, or round the block.
Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.
I like to have space.
I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.
I love being in the garden, and my 'chilling-out room' is almost like being out there.
I've never enjoyed being cooped up.
I'm a very opinionated person and when I feel something I have to say it.
As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.
When I was competing, I trained between three and six hours a day, seven days a week.
I have always eaten well.
When I was competing I didn't have a nutritionist. It wasn't something that British athletics offered back then.
When I was competing, I cut out red meat but only because I felt it took too long to digest, so I stuck to chicken and fish.
I've done my country proud.
I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.
People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.
It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a great woman. She had wisdom and knowledge.
You can always be stronger.
Appreciate me for what I am doing.
What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.
I used to say to my opponents: 'If you let me beat you, I'm going to tell your kids you were beaten by an older man.' When I beat them I would tell them I did it with a slight hamstring problem or that I was only feeling 80 per cent fit.
