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

If you lived in Sheffield and were called Sebastian, you had to learn to run fast at a very early stage.

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.

World records are only borrowed.

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

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

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