Lewis Moody: I want to have as big an impact on Motor Neurone Disease as possible in time I have to move things forward

Winning used to be about coming first, but now it means something very different to Lewis Moody, writes Sky Sports' Gail Davis...

The overriding emotion as I left my conversation with Lewis Moody was one of awe. He is an undoubted superhuman. If I ever find myself in the depths of the adversity he now faces, I hope I have the strength to tackle it in the Moody way.

I watched him win rugby matches for Leicester and England, I saw him push himself to become the best in the world and a few hours in his company makes you realise despite being diagnosed with MND - a disease there is no cure for - he is still the same competitive animal.

"Winning looks like having a wonderful purpose that I am utterly passionate about," says Moody, who retired from rugby in 2012.

"For the last 14 years you feel like you've not had a proper fight to get into. Like your teeth have been a little bit blunt. You're happily just getting on in Bradford-on-Avon but now all of a sudden you've got almost reinvigorated."

It's ignited something. The old Lewis. "We always have masks that we use and my sporting mask was one that allowed me to amplify uniquely in one specific area."