Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity