In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

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.

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle, " he said. "You got him to speak.""Just to shout at me, really, " said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.

By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.