A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a lot of money off of players. You don't get a free education: you work full-time year round for five years for an education you could pay for three times over if you just got your market value.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.