Quotes of the day from Rio

Top quotes from the Rio Olympics on Saturday:

"I have fulfilled my dream and to have fulfilled it in my home country makes me very proud."

- Neymar after sealing a first football gold for Brazil.

"It was our silver wedding anniversary recently, which we could not celebrate, but soon we will celebrate it with gold."

- Brazil football coach Rogerio Micale.

"I just want to go home now and see my beautiful kids and hang my medals around their necks."

- Mo Farah after completing a double-double by retaining his title in the 10,000m and 5000m

"On top of the world, I could be up with Jesus Christ looking down. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. Hard to put into words."

- Britain's Liam Heath on winning canoe sprint gold at the Lagoa Stadium beneath the Christ the Redeemer statue.

"Every time you beat someone you're crushing their dreams, so it's a tough old process."

- Two-time gold medallist boxer Nicola Adams has sympathy for her opponents.

"I've had a four-year plan, and I'm definitely a planner, but I have zero plans for August 21. So, we?ll wait and find out."

- America's Gwen Jorgensen on her future after winning triathlon gold.

"Not bad for two immigrants."

- Diana Taurasi of the United States on the bond between her and coach Geno Auriemma after they beat Spain in the women's basketball final.

"I get this one from Norway (points to red cut on nose) and this new tattoo from France (points to bleeding cut on neck). It's the cost of this (holds gold medal to her face)."

- Russia's Vladlena Bobrovnikova on her scars after the handball gold medal victory against France.

"I called my mother before, when I won the synchronised event, but she said, 'It's so late, why are you calling? I was already asleep'."

- China's double Olympic gold medallist diver Chen Aisen admits her mother is hard to please.

"When a person is born they only have one hair on their head, and then have a lot of hair and then it's all gone, everything is changing constantly in our life."

- Russian handball coach Yevgeny Trefilov on the fleeting nature of success.

"Maybe it's the food, water, the land, the girls we have in our country?"

- Serbia water polo gold medallist Filip Filipovic on the reasons for their gold medal performance.