Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

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.

Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come