Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

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

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

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

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.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.