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I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I've got confidence that I'll be able to pick it up eventually, but that's the reason I'm a full-time Sevens player this year: because I knew coming into it that it would be really tough, and I've got to give it my all.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.