Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Mo Farah
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British athlete Mo Farah.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.
What drives me is winning medals and going out there and enjoying it.
I believe no matter who you are, respect yourself, respect others.
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.
My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.
Dubai is a safe place, and I never came across anything to worry about.
I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.
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 wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.
I want to thank the public, so I have to keep doing what I do, which is keep winning medals for my country.
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.
I'd love to work with children. I've set up the charity, and that's going well. We've got a lot of projects we're doing in Somalia, so I'd like to see how we're doing there.
What do you want to be? If you don't put the work in, you're not going to be able to be it.
Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans.
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 used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere.
It's important you think positively not negatively. Think about your loved ones and all the people who are behind you.
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.
If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.
I'd heard a lot about Dubai before I first visited and couldn't wait to go.
The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.
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.
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.
It's doesn't just come overnight, you've got to train for it and believe in yourself; that's the most important thing.
I always learn something from every race.
There is so much to discover in Dubai.
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.
Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.
I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don't see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid's birthdays, anniversaries. I'll never be able to go back and be with my family.
There's got to be the same rules for everyone.
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.
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.
It's great to be British, really. If anything happens, I'm back to my country. At least I have a country.
Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.
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.
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'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.'
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?
I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.
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.
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 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.
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me.
Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.
I love what I do. I want to continue winning medals.
I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.
On the track, you know what you're capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control.
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.
In life, if people need help, then we should try and help them out.
If your body needs certain food, you have to give it to it. And as an athlete, if I'm doing 100 miles a week and working out, if I eat bad food one day, it's not bad for me because I burn it off.
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.
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.
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.
This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.
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 has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
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.
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.
I've got such a sweet tooth. I do miss the U.K. where you get sticky toffee pudding or custard, all that.
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.
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