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

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

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.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

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

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.