What Is Important Is To Win.

If Your Body Is Damaged, Wounded, It Can Be Fixed, But If Inside, Mentally, You Are Wounded You Cannot Fix It, It's Hard.

Many People Know That Ethiopia Is Poor. When I Break A World Record, Maybe People Get To Know Something Else About Ethiopia, Something Good. We Can't Make Planes Or Cars, We Don't Have The Materials. We Do What We Can.

My Father Thought Sport Was Something Fun - He Didn't Know It Was A Way To Make Money. Then I Won A Mercedes At The World Championships And I Gave It To Him. From The Moment It Arrived My Father Said: 'good, You Can Support Not Just Yourself But Me Too'.

Some People Start A Sport Just To Reduce Weight, Or Some Say, 'my Doctor Ordered Me To Run And Do Exercise', And For Others, They Run For Completely Different Benefits. But It Is Not Like That With Sport. We Need To Eat, We Need To Rest, But Also We Need To Run.

For Me A Day Without Training Is Like A Day Without Eating.