If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

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.

God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.

We don't think. We think we think.

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past