I don't have proper places to run.

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.