When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

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.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

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.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

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