In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle; that is why they are famous.
For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.
When you're young you're influenced by the best teams. So a lot of my favourite cricketers were Australian.
My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It's not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don't ever think about those kind of things.
When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
I was a big fan of Naseem Hamed, and followed him. Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and I know him well.
Alex Higgins was my hero, so to play in Belfast, at the superb Waterfront Hall, is very special to me.
Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin... to have my name up there with those types of guys is a blessing and a humbling feeling.
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.
It was a great experience to share the dressing room with names like Virat Kohli, M S Dhoni, Rohit Sharma.
We are just lucky to be able to watch Ronaldo and Messi at their best.
Sports Personality of the Year' is such an iconic sort of programme, I remember when I was playing tennis, wherever I was in the world I would want to be back in Britain for 'Sports Personality of the Year.'
It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.
There have been great champions in every generation.
