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It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really....

It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, 'Congratulations. You've been picked to go to the Olympic Games.' I kept stressing I wasn't a patient.

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I was like the George Clooney of the ski business.

I was the best ski jumper in the United Kingdom.

No matter how many people say you can't do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

Once I was making £10,000 for an hour's work, but there have been years where my promotional stuff has brought in only a few hundred.

That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That's for me. That's what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.

It's nice and restful, plastering.

When I was a kid, people kept saying, 'You can't do this, you can't do that,' and I wanted to prove them wrong.

I don't like bullies or selfishness or people who are grumpy.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

I try to keep fit, as it's better for both skiing and plastering. I cycle and jog and I dance a lot - Ceroc, a form of modern jive.

Some people thought I wasn't taking the sport seriously because I was always laughing and having fun, but I loved my skiing, I loved my jumping, and I thought, 'Well, why not have a smile on my face when I'm...

As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I...

My mum was wonderful.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

On the street, I'll hear, 'You made the Olympics for me,' or 'I love what you represented.' Only occasionally is it, 'You were a flop, an also-ran, a loser.'

When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the...

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