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.

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.

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 deeper the journey into inner space, the further the possibilities in outer space.

Adventures of Lailah Gifty Akita, the wonder woman!

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.