The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.

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.

We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.