I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

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.

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

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.

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

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.