Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

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

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

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

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.

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.