When you promise something, you must fulfill it..

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well..

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there..

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..

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a h….

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation..

You lose the speed before the stamina..

When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not al….

I want to go down in history..

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me..

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is….

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard..

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be ….

I love running and I will always run..

For me a day without training is like a day without eating..

I find the business world hard..

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner..

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my ….

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight..

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York..