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

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" Athletics, for me, was something I was pushed towards. I really wanted to play football when I was younger. Over the years, I started to enjoy it more and learn about it. "

" You've got to believe in God. "

" 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. "

" As an athlete you want to be able to choose something that you haven't already achieved. Is it different distances, or do you come back and defend your titles? It depends what your coach says. "

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

" It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you. "

" Records are there to be broken. Lots of people would love to swap their world record for an Olympic medal, but for me, my medals are there forever and ever, and that's what does it for me. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out. "

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

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

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

" I think the way I am, the way I'm chilled out, has a lot to do with being Muslim and having faith. "

" On the track, you know what you're capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control. "

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

" The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" I'd heard a lot about Dubai before I first visited and couldn't wait to go. "

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

" There's got to be the same rules for everyone. "

" 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. "

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