Mo Farah

“I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'”

“I'd love to work with children. I've set up the charity, and that's going well. We've got a lot of projects we're doing in Somalia, so I'd like to see how we're doing there.”

“I've become someone else, really, like a role model.”

“Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.”

“I work every day, and every year I spend seven months away from my family. I miss my kids' birthdays, and those are times I will never be able to go back on and share with them. That kills me.”

“It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.”

“This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This is my country, and when I put on my Great Britain vest, I'm proud, very proud, that it's my country.”

“As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.”

“I always learn something from every race.”

“This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.”

“I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.”

“I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.”

“All that work you put in, it's so worth it to win a medal.”

“On the track, you know what you're capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control.”

“You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.”

“If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.”

“I'm away about six months of the year, competing here in the U.K. or in training camps in Arizona, Ethiopia, the Pyrenees.”

“I'd promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, 'I can't let her down.'”