I Remember In Particular My First Victory

Many People Know That Ethiopia Is Poor. When I Break A World Record, Maybe People Get To Know Something Else About Ethiopia, Something Good. We Can't Make Planes Or Cars, We Don't Have The Materials. We Do What We Can.

If Your Body Is Damaged, Wounded, It Can Be Fixed, But If Inside, Mentally, You Are Wounded You Cannot Fix It, It's Hard.

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.

If You Are A Really Good Marathoner, You Have To Run New York.

You Need Three Things To Win: Discipline, Hard Work And, Before Everything Maybe, Commitment. No One Will Make It Without Those Three. Sport Teaches You That.