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.

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.

Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.

Rhyme and reason answer all problems

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.