Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

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