I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.

It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.