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.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

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.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

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.

Music is my emotional tranquilizers

The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

What is, is simply what is. Allow it and rejoice in it.

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.