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

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

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

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

At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

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.

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.