In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

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

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

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 mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.