Quotes from Mo Farah

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

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

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.

I don't want to talk politics, but what I do say is I believe in rules and laws, and if you come to this country, you've got to abide by the rules here.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

In training camp, you know what each person is doing.

Everybody in middle-distance running knows each other, and we all know what we are capable of.

I'm the champion, and to stay ahead, I have to work harder.

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

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.

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.

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.