My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

(Algerian athlete, 1996 Summer Olympics, on the 3000m world record) I think my 3:27 for 1500m is worth 7:21 for 3000m.

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the (1992) Olympics. I have to win or die.

It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.

And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.