Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

I'm 28, and for the next six or seven years my goal is to try to fight for the yellow jersey. If I can win it once I would be chuffed to bits.

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.

I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.