My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.

I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.

Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

It is not true that the heart wears out — but the body creates this illusion.

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Say not, 'I have found the truth, ' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

Lots of ways to reach God, I chose love.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.