“We continue training, to recharge, to continue striving and do our best. We will return to the field to leave everything.”

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child.

Together, we will continue to support the fight against this cruel disease as cancer through elements as important as prevention and research.

It was a real honour to receive the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

Plastic pollution in the ocean is reaching very high levels and only together can we fight to stop this.

A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

Say more with your feet than you ever could with words.

It is very important that adults talk to children about what is happening in a way that they can understand, using simple and age-appropriate language.

The only way to achieve success is by fighting together.

Success takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Being a bit famous now gives me the opportunity to help people who really need it, especially children.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Three very important points to keep growing. Great team effort.

Together we will keep trying to do great things.

Health must always come first. It is an exceptional moment and we must follow the indications of both health organizations and public authorities.

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

On the field, you come into sync with your teammates and coaches and together you achieve something that you could never do on your own.

As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.

The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn’t running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven’t forgotten about me.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.