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

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!

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.

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

Fighting does not make you a hero. Love does.

Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense

Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

People aren't always what you want them to be

Being busy does not always mean real work.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

There are no signposts in the sea.