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

Athletics is in my blood.

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

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

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.

Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.