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This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

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.

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

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When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

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Athletics is in my blood.

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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

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

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

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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

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In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

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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.

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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

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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.

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Schooling is so important.

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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

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The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

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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.

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This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.

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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.

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You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

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

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Age for me is just a number.

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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.

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

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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

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What is important is to win.

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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

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You lose the speed before the stamina.

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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

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

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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

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I find the business world hard.

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