I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

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.

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

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.

Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.

If no war in heaven, then defeat ain't misery.

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.

When there's time for whistling, there's a lot of time on a show.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.