Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

World records are only borrowed.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I am always a big believer that if you work hard enough and you work out of passion, a person can do anything.

That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.