Top 55 Mo Farah Quotes

I don’t want to talk politics, but what I do say is I believe in rules and laws, and if you come to this country, you’ve got to abide by the rules here.

I’ve got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can’t do. Same in running.

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

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it’s a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

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.

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.

If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn’t for the teachers at my school, then I wouldn’t have achieved what I have. You have to look where you came from, and we do need to get more parents involved, more running clubs and more schools. They can make a difference.

I don’t know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think what’s best for us now, what’s best for us in 10 years’ time, what’s best for our kids’ kids’ future – and I don’t know.

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.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I’d be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

It’s important you think positively not negatively. Think about your loved ones and all the people who are behind you.

In life, if people need help, then we should try and help them out.

What I do, it’s part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything – to be there for them and have that connection.

The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That’s just a normal use.

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

Look at my success. I didn’t achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years’ struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

The public do get behind me, and I love the crowd. When I’m ever in London, they give me massive support – the Anniversary Games, the cheers; they are always nice to me.

I’ve become someone else, really, like a role model.

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can’t just say no to everyone.

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 didn’t have the family and everything, I wouldn’t be where I am.

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

I want to spend as much time as I can with my kids, but I know the opportunities in athletics don’t often come round, so I’ve just got to make the most of it.

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

I’m as much of a human being as the rest of the world. But if I don’t train, I don’t win. If I don’t focus, I don’t win. So I don’t have a choice: I just have to run.

I’m a guy who wins medals rather than runs fast times, so for me, what keeps me going is winning medals for my country and making my nation proud.

To be labelled a cheat – it’s not fair. If I’m a cheat, then prove I’m a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.

What do you want to be? If you don’t put the work in, you’re not going to be able to be it.

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.

To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave – to be in the same category as them is amazing.

When I run for my country, I’m very proud to run for my country.

There’s a time in everyone’s career where you go, ‘Ah, this is hard – how long am I going to have to do this?’ But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can’t buy you that.

I love what I do. I want to continue winning medals.

I wasn’t a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.

I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.

What drives me is winning medals and going out there and enjoying it.

I’m 33 years old; I’m getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you’ve got to be honest with yourself.

In training camp, you know what each person is doing.

I’m especially drawn to the sand dunes. I love driving around and exploring them by dune buggy.

I’m the champion, and to stay ahead, I have to work harder.

Come join us; see the reality of what I have to do to achieve what I achieve. There are no cutting corners.

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

I’ve shown that if you dream and are willing to work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

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.’

Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

In America… it’s not divided, but with Trump now, it’s like you are asking for trouble. We wouldn’t dare to say any of the things he is saying in our country and get away with it. It’s just… blasphemy.

My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me.

When you line up on the track, you want to have done your homework, be aware of what they are capable of. You think about everything. It’s like taking a journey, innit?

I’ve got such a sweet tooth. I do miss the U.K. where you get sticky toffee pudding or custard, all that.

Let me do what I do best. And that’s to run and represent my country and make my country proud.

It’s great to be British, really. If anything happens, I’m back to my country. At least I have a country.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

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

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