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

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.

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.

I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.