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. – Mo Farah
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. – Mo Farah
On the track, you know what you’re capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control. – Mo Farah
I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling. – Mo Farah
I think the way I am, the way I’m chilled out, has a lot to do with being Muslim and having faith. – Mo Farah
It would be great to run around with the family every day, go shopping, take the children out. At my level, though, I can only afford to do that for one week maximum. Otherwise I have to eat, sleep, train – nothing else. – Mo Farah
I work so hard for what I do. To achieve what I have has taken me half of my life to be able to achieve what I have achieved. And for people to think I have taken a shortcut, it’s not right, and it’s not fair. – Mo Farah
It’s great to be British, really. If anything happens, I’m back to my country. At least I have a country. – Mo Farah
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve. – Mo Farah
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. – Mo Farah
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.’ – Mo Farah
Even though running is work for me, I always miss it if I take a break. A lot of people find running relaxing, but I can never switch off from timing and competing against myself. – Mo Farah
The whole reason I moved to the U.S. to be coached by Alberto Salazar is to be able to improve 1 or 2 per cent. I was sick of coming sixth in the world, seventh in the world, and get close to a medal, but not quite there, half-a-second. – Mo Farah
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. – Mo Farah
I wasn’t a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around. – Mo Farah
Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing. – Mo Farah
I’ve got such a sweet tooth. I do miss the U.K. where you get sticky toffee pudding or custard, all that. – Mo Farah
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. – Mo Farah
I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don’t see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid’s birthdays, anniversaries. I’ll never be able to go back and be with my family. – Mo Farah
As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That’s who you are, and it’s hard to change that. Not using that technique – almost like a sprint – that’s when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can. – Mo Farah
Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans. – Mo Farah
I’d promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, ‘I can’t let her down.’ – Mo Farah
