I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

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.

to love is to have ancient wounds exposed to vicious winds and be caressed instead of burned

we always knewthat good times camewith termination contractseven if we weren't quite readyto sign it.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.

I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

I always love to do my own stunts when they let me, right?

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.