I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

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

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

I want to go down in history.

I love running and I will always run.

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

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.