When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

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

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.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.