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I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

I started doing stand-up in college.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

I've always been into sports and being physical.

Even though arguably I could have done much better at school, I'd decided at a young age that I was going to be a professional sportsman at some sport. And at that stage, there was a bit of luck: I was fortunate to meet the right people at the right time to get me to where I am now.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.