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.

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

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 always enough to be in good shape.

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

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.