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

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

" I enjoy my athletics, and I want to take it as far as I can. "

" I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family. "

" Bolt put the Mobot on the map, to be honest with you! He's just an amazing guy. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's doesn't just come overnight, you've got to train for it and believe in yourself; that's the most important thing. "

Believe In Yourself

" There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Everything happens for a reason, so you shouldn't get wound up. "

" 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.' "

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