My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

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.

The more time you spend thinking, the less time you spend doing. The less time you spend doing, the more you watch others do. This formula never equals success.

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.