Mo Farah Quotes

Mo Farah

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 23, 1983

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?

Mo Farah

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.

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'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.

Mo Farah

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

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

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.

Mo Farah

I want to thank the public, so I have to keep doing what I do, which is keep winning medals for my country.

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

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

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

Mo Farah

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 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

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

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

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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.

Mo Farah

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

Mo Farah

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

Mo Farah

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.

Mo Farah