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.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

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.

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

Nobody is offered a World Cup.