Quotes By Haile Gebrselassie

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

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

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

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.

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.

Schooling is so important.

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

I want to go down in history.