When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

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.

I love running and I will always run.

Kindness happens - It begins with me.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can as wide as you can for others and especially for yourself.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.