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.

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.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

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.

World records are only borrowed.

Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.