Sue Barker

I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you'll probably have a good match!

I'd grown up with Wimbledon, and so to play on Centre Court really was a dream come true.

I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.

I get very emotional when British players are playing.

I wouldn't have wanted to be in any other era. Chrissie Evert, Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade, Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court were fabulous people, and I made great friends along the way.

It has been an honour to present BBC 'Sports Personality Of The Year' for the last 19 years and I have loved every minute of it. The BBC have asked me to stay but I had made the decision to downsize my commitments a while ago, and I knew that the time would be right after what was always set to be a magical 2012.

I work on 'A Question of Sport' which comes out of Manchester and you see how it's important to take parts of the BBC to other parts of the nation.