'Well, it's like this,' he says of his recent achievements, 'job one is get out of the gutter. Job two is to be able to look at the end of a year of work and not feel like I was overworked and underpaid and I don't like what I see. It took me 25 years of having the wrong thing overshadow my original intentions when I came out here. My victory has been so hard won. It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. Now that ain't my story any more, so I can scoff at somebody else's demise and be one of those pigs at the Colosseum going, "Kill him!".'