“There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Ke...” — Mo Farah Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.”

“Bahrain is very dear to me.”

“There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.”

“I'm not big on holidays. I tend to tie them in with work - I'll grab a few days' holiday in Dubai when I'm in Bahrain racing and a week in Thailand between the Malaysian test and the Malaysian Grand Prix.”