I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

The people of Afghanistan will continue to remember his lasting friendship with the people of Afghanistan as well as his unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.