Rio Olympics: The gold for best quote goes to…

"I felt kind of slow. I'm not used to running this early at any championship."

- Usain Bolt isn't impressed by the morning start for the men's 100m preliminaries
 
"I've won an Olympic gold for three of my children. Now I'd like to win the 5,000m gold for my little boy."

- Mo Farah has family in mind as he wins his second straight 10,000m title
 
"It is possibly the greatest choke in Olympic history."

- Australian swimmer Cate Campbell, the 100m freestyle world record-holder, on her own below-par performances in Rio
 
"If you want to be the star of the show, that's fine."

- Andy Murray's toughest exchange in his semi-final was with chair umpire Carlos Ramos
 
"I don't even know who Lilly King is -- she does swimming, not track and field."

- Drug-tainted sprinter Justin Gatlin shrugs off a team-mate's comments that he shouldn't be in Rio
 
"It's surreal, kind of absurd."

- Anthony Ervin, like everyone else, can't quite believe he's returned from the wilderness to reclaim his 50m freestyle title at 35, 16 years after first winning it at Sydney 2000
 
"If he had been bigger I would have had to use a bigger club."

- Golfer Henrik Stenson, after poking a caiman, a member of the crocodile family, with a pitching wedge

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