Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

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.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”~Blink

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.

Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.