In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

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.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.