You lose the speed before the stamina.

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.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

Love is a bright blue sky.You can live under it, but love couldn't hide.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

I've lived the American Dream, but, sadly, for too many, the American Dream is fading.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.