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I'm never satisfied.
Athletics is in my blood.
Schooling is so important.
What is important is to win.
Age for me is just a number.
I want to go down in history.
I find the business world hard.
I love running and I will always run.
You lose the speed before the stamina.
I'm a runner first before anything else.
I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.
I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.