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

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" 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. "

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

" Every race is different. If you come down the home straight neck and neck, the crowd cheering for you can decide the race. "

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

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

" I could sit at home, watch TV, and go for the odd run. But to be the best, you have to make this sacrifice, keep going away and doing blocks of training in the mountains. "

" I wished for just one medal as a junior. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I always learn something from every race. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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.' "

" Dubai is a safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "