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

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

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

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.

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.

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