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

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.

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.

I love running and I will always run.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be looking for it all day.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?