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.

I don't have proper places to run.

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.

Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

There is a period of tapering when we're not in the gym quite as long to try to save our bodies, but leading up to the competition we try to keep things similar to the rest of the year.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.