Mo Farah Quotes

Mo Farah

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 23, 1983

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

Mo Farah

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.

Mo Farah

I used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Mo Farah

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

Mo Farah

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.

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A guy like me, yes, I am good in terms of championship races, and that's where I dominate - but in terms of running fast times, I haven't quite done that.

Mo Farah

I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

Mo Farah

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

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

President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

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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.'

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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.

Mo Farah

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.

Mo Farah