Mo Farah

“I'm the champion, and to stay ahead, I have to work harder.”

“I want to spend as much time as I can with my kids, but I know the opportunities in athletics don't often come round, so I've just got to make the most of it.”

“Let me do what I do best. And that's to run and represent my country and make my country proud.”

“I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think what's best for us now, what's best for us in 10 years' time, what's best for our kids' kids' future - and I don't know.”

“Everything happens for a reason, so you shouldn't get wound up.”

“It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you.”

“If I didn't have the family and everything, I wouldn't be where I am.”

“I wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.”

“The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That's just a normal use.”

“To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.”

“There's got to be the same rules for everyone.”

“Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.”

“There is so much to discover in Dubai.”

“Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me.”

“I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.”

“President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.”

“What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.”

“I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.”

“Dubai is a safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about.”

“There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.”